FEBRUARY 26, 2013 BY DAYO OKETOLA LEAVE
A COMMENT
The
Federal
Government
has
created
a
national
single
window
portal
that will
ensure
that all
government
information
is
domiciled
in one
place.
It will provide a comprehensive online platform for
over 400 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of
government currently running substandard websites.
Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs.
Omobola Jonhson, said this at the social media week
in Lagos, entitled, ‘Showcase: Technology in
Governance’.
A statement on Monday quoted the minister as
saying that the primary objective of deploying a
national portal was to create a single point of entry
for Nigerians to access government’s information and
services online.
The portal, according to her, is an initiative of the
ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of
Information.
The national portal, she said, would be unveiled in
March and it would showcase all the MDAs.
This would enable Nigerians to view and engage any
desired agency of government at the click of a button,
she added.
The ministry has already designed new standardised
and secure web templates and guidelines that
conform to global web and security standards for
MDAs to adopt, in the redesign of their websites
before the inauguration.
As such, all MDAs of government would be mandated
to migrate before December 2014 to the new security
and design standards, the statement said.
Johnson also disclosed that a government call centre
with a vanity number ‘’0700 CALL GOV’’ would be
inaugurated in April.
“The call centre will facilitate enquiries, complaints/
problem resolution, where possible. It will help to
build a knowledge-management database and help
support Servicom desks,” the statement said.
The portal, according to Johnson, currently has 20
processes; and by 2015, 250 processes of government
would have been uploaded online.
“Twenty simple citizen-facing processes of the
Ministries of Communication Technology, Education,
Health, Agriculture and Trade and Investment have
already been automated on the portal for the benefit
of Nigerians,” she added.www.punchng.com/business/technology/fg-creates-single-online-portal-for-mdas/

Ok

Maintenance is another problem, can someone google nigeria universities site and see what im saying. My own state federal university (unizik) was last updated in 2010! Really! I couldnt cry but laugh, I thought its only anambra state until I see some school last updated in 2007! its only lagos that has a recent update. So sad

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Good moves....

Toaskarity: Maintenance is another problem, can someone google nigeria universities site and see what im saying. My own state federal university (unizik) was last updated in 2010! Really! I couldnt cry but laugh, I thought its only anambra state until I see some school last updated in 2007! its only lagos that has a recent update. So sad

LOL...so how does the students pay their fees, register the courses, do their Admissions Clearance, etc? Still manual??... At least tank God Uniben own still dey work, and even expanding.... You are right though, very many MDA's sites are basically non-functional, which is really a BIG shame