IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

For Nigeria to achieve her digital economy agenda, there is need to invest in effective and efficient digital infrastructure, particularly edge cloud technologies, which offer cost savings, capacity to scale rapidly, advance cyber-security features and access to powerful analytical tools for processing big data.

The Director of Operations, Unitellas Edge Cloud, a provider of enterprise-grade edge cloud and IT infrastructure as a service, Blessing Omo, made this known at this year’s edition of the Information Communication Technology and Telecommunication (ICTEL) EXPO held in Lagos.

According to the website macrotrends.net, the current metro area population of Abuja in 2022 is 3,652,000, a 5.43 per cent increase from 2021. The metro area population of Abuja in 2021 was 3,464,000, a 5.67 per cent increase from 2020. The metro area population of Abuja in 2020 was 3,278,000, a 5.91 per cent increase from 2019.

The population surge in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is being promoted by the insecurity in some Northern states and thereby putting a strain on the housing market in Abuja and its environs. To solve the crisis of rising housing deficit in the capital city of Abuja, a businessman and entertainment mogul, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has promised to mitigate the housing challenges faced by Nigerians by providing affordable accommodation for residents of Abuja, irrespective of status or class. Cubana and his associates are sinking in $1million on New Dawn & Casa Cubana Golf resort, 86.9 hectares of land that would have 500-600 housing units constructed along the Jabi-Airport road.

Candidates, parents, teachers, and proprietors of schools fear that Nigeria is ill prepared for this new regime of examinations, which involves the use of high-end technologies like Biometrics.

They also fear that the inconsistencies that played up during the last voters registration exercise and the elections due to computation errors may still occur, causing even more anguish among parents who may have staked so much to register and prepare their wards for the examinations.

He gave the assurance that the committee was determined to ensure that it delivered full concise database for all Nigerians.

The National Database Harmonization Committee has proposed three years for the capture of 180 million Nigerians and other residents in the National Identification card scheme.

The issuance of the National Identity Cards which started several years ago had been slowed down due to multiplicity of data collection points but the harmonization committee had tried to achieve a one-stop centre.

Mr Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications says the Communications sector roadmap and the e-government master plan are ready for implementation.

Adebayo made this known when he paid a visit to the headquarters of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) late Monday in Abuja.

The minister, who was represented by Mr Sunny Echono, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry said that the ministry was poised to commence the implementation of the documents.

What Edo and Lagos states are putting across is that the basis for planning by Nigerian governments in the 21st century has to be a more accurate way of determining people and other resources domiciled within a geographic space. It is unacceptable to plan on imagined statistics when ICT tools are readily available to achieve near accuracy on figures and therefore put across a much more comprehensive and strategic development plan.

The NCC Director of Public Affairs, Tony Ojobo, said this at a three-day Digital Pay Expo 2018, describing digital economy as an inevitable phenomenon of growth, which nations of the world could not resist.

The NCC Director of Public Affairs, Tony Ojobo, said this at a three-day Digital Pay Expo 2018, describing digital economy as an inevitable phenomenon of growth, which nations of the world could not resist.

Dr Omobola Johnson has served as Nigeria's minister of communication technology since 2011. Under her charge the West Africa's country's ICT sector is said to have attracted US$6bn from foreign direct investment and, according to regional media, by the end of 2014 the sector contributed 10.5% towards the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Her focus has been on expanding national broadband penetration, under the auspices of the country's National Broadband Strategy, as well as further implementing the e-government masterplan.

Experts have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to give e-government priority in his administration as a strategic measure to check leakages in spending and exposure of officials to public funds.

The experts, who gave the advice in Abuja yesterday at the conclusion of a two-day “2015 E-Government Summit”, based their submission on the recent disclosure by President Buhari that an estimated $150 billion had been stolen from the country and stashed abroad in the last 10 years by some unscrupulous government officials and other Nigerians. According to them, adoption of e-government will, to a larger extent, help in curbing cases of financial fraud in government circles.

The Federal Government has given the final approval for the deployment of phase 2 of the National ICT Infrastructure Backbone (NICTIB) Project of the Federal Secretariats across the country by Galaxy backbone limited.

The phase two of the project has been on-going with Galaxy Backbone Limited which earlier targeted March 2019 for overall completion of the project.

The Federal Government has said it is working on a bill – the Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB) that will aid the digital economy in the country.

The government explained that the Bill is a set of rules and incentives that will help create an enabling environment for tech enabled businesses.

The Nigerian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector stands at the precipice of a new digital revolution that requires bold policy reforms and industry reinvention, thus placing new imperatives for definitive action.

Proactive and responsive policies have been the key driver of the evolution and development of the industry even as the current industry governance structure is still way behind the 21st century technological realities.

The Federal Government says it is partnering with the government of South Korea to train no fewer than 22, 000 public servants on e-government.

Mr Abdulaziz Abdullahi, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communications was quoted as making this known in a statement issued by Mrs Pauline Sule, the Deputy Director, Press, on Monday in Abuja.

As Enterprise Architecture is being used as a standard tool for executing a digital transformation strategy, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has implemented the Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture (NGEA) to set directions for Government digital transformation in Nigeria.

The Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, disclosed this at the 12th ISACA Annual Conference where he delivered Keynote Address with the theme: “Accelerating Digital Transformation: The Nigerian Trends. https://tribuneonlineng.com/fgs-enterprise-architecture-to-drive-digital-transformation-dg-nitda-says/

Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) will soon be unbundled into five companies, Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has disclosed.

Speaking at the 4th series of the INDO-AFRICA ICT EXPO 2018 on Digital Transformation in Lagos, Shittu explained the plan is to transform NIPOST from transmission of letters and postal materials to a profitable venture.

Nigeria was a partner at the just-concluded Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), what do you think the country took out of it?

In selecting GITEX to showcase the investment opportunities in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Nigeria, we had a lot to consider in that the event is a big one, which is usually well-attended. This year, there were over 60 countries and over 3,700 companies in attendance. It is usually a large event and NITDA was the official country partner this year.

Smart Cities are not exactly new phenomena. Yet for many cities across the globe, the implementation of smart cities remains largely in the experimental stages. Others have blazed ahead and achieved great success. Smart cities have been used to solve issues relating to public administration, environmental and waste management, utilities, security, contactless payments, and healthcare. Barcelona, Singapore, Zurich (Switzerland), and Oslo (Norway) now sit comfortably atop the 2021 IMD-SUTD Smart City Index (SCI). Ranked 115th globally out of 118 countries in the SCI, Lagos for its part has only begun to skim the benefits of inroads into smart city technology. But for all its promise, the myriad infrastructural challenges typically associated with a developing nation’s commercial nerve center, hold the city firmly in its vice. Still, there is nowhere to go but up.

The Government of the Republic of Korea through its aid agency, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KICOA), has handed over a renovated and equipped training centre for the training of public servants on e-Government in Nigeria.

The handover ceremony was conducted at the e-Government Training Centre (ETC) which is located within the premises of the Public Servant Institute of Nigeria (PSIN).

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The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) plans to train 22,650 Federal Government workers on e-government before 2017.

The Country Director of KOICA, Jung Sang-Hoon, who disclosed this in Abuja at a workshop on e-government Master Plan 2020, said the agency would spend $8.6million on the training, which is expected to make Nigeria’s civil service one of the best in the world.

Lagos State Government has been named the best Information and Communication Technology, ICT, State in Nigeria.

The state beats 35 other States of the Federation to emerge winner and was also named as the best State in E-Government Implementation in the country.