Interesting article

http://www.punchng.com/i-punch/nigeria-a-country-with-an-ailing-website/

Nigeria, the self-acclaimed giant of Africa, has no functional official web portal. The website of the Federal Government of Nigeria, www.nigeria.gov.ng, is ailing.

For several weeks running, the web portal has been in a bad shape with no information other than the picture of President Goodluck Jonathan clad in his traditional Ijaw attire, smiling and waving at the supposed guests who get disappointed after visiting the blank website.

The information on the website reads, “Welcome to the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s web portal. This web portal will be uploaded shortly. For more information, email: webmaster@nigeria.gov.ng. Powered by the Federal Ministry of Information.”

A mail sent to the e-mail address, seeking enquiry and clarifications on the development, was also not replied as at the time of filing this report.

The poor African countries, including Zimbabwe, Republic of Congo, Burundi, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau, own and maintain functional websites and use them for the propagation of business and investment opportunities, relationships with various economic and political organisations as well as development partners from different parts of the world.

Even South Sudan, which is the newest nation on the continent, takes the issue of online presence seriously. The Government of South Sudan, under President Salva Kiir Mayardit, updates the site frequently with its activities. The last of such was the country’s plans to export oil through Djibouti via Ethiopia.

However, one wonders why presidential advisers and assistants own and maintain websites with adequate social media plug-ins and good visual resolution while the nation’s website, which is supposed to serve as a gateway to the rest of the world and a one-stop site for every information about Nigeria, its people and culture, is left unattended to.

But there is a twist to this! A Google search, by our correspondent, of the name of the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, whose ministry is saddled with the responsibility of managing the website, shows that he might not even own a website as none could be attributable to him.

For more, read: http://www.punchng.com/i-punch/nigeria-a-country-with-an-ailing-website/

ok

:oSomeone needs to contact whoever handles this webmaster@nigeria.gov.ng

The bureaucracy of giving job to the wrong persons is the reason for this.

Dont be surprised, the recurent expenditure they will claim on dat ailing website wld run into millions every month.

How sad.

^^^ I once had an insider in a certain state government "office" that had a website that hadn't been updated in 4 years, yet an annual budget of N20m was set aside for "maintenance" of same website

I am not surprised at all.

i can redesign and maintain at no cost.....


Just for my Country NGN

but see

I feel so bad remembering how many volunteers put in efforts to do a prototype on this website and yet...

That part of corruption and negligence. Am willing to do it free with just a micro link back thats all!

@omni
Abi o! In some other countries, that site would have garnered some kind of a response. It makes me believe what I have heard about the NFF not being happy with Nigeria going all the way during tournaments so that they can claim the balance of the money for themselves.

Not to sound unpatriotic, but Nigeria is a total mess, everything starts and ends with money, its no longer about quality services, i admired the contribution to help fix this sham. but the thing is, Nigeria system of contracting jobs is purely based on Nepotism and connections. what a f**king joke

The webmaster even used table for layout.

Startechng: That part of corruption and negligence. Am willing to do it free with just a micro link back thats all!

like your cheap websites?

Napolitano:

like your cheap websites?

Whether cheap or not its cool as long as it servers it purpose, and its professional... Meanwhile, there are different grades of website development... Thank you!

Folks, let's not let this thread fall a victim of "beer parlor" conversation.

Let's stay on point...

yawa-ti-de:
Folks, let's not let this thread fall a victim of "beer parlor" conversation.

Let's stay on point...

Thanks babe!

I think its a good thing u reminded some people that this is a national issue and not some personal business issues.

Does this mean that nigerian government has no IT career department? Or is it that they are not just competent?
Whats keeping NIIT from taking over this department?

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Does this mean that nigerian government has no IT career department? Or is it that they are not just competent?
Whats keeping NIIT from taking over this department?

NIIT ain't even the best to take control of the IT department. There are far better people than the entire NIIT candidates

*omni:

NIIT ain't even the best to take control of the IT department. There are far better people than the entire NIIT candidates

Yes i know, but i only mentioned NIIT cos they are the once offering recognised certificates, and maybe i was mistaking to believing its a federal institution. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (NIIT). But if am right then they have uper hand in handling the nations it sector and nations websites.


Just my little suggestions...

php.NET:


Yes i know, but i only mentioned NIIT cos they are the once offering recognised certificates, and maybe i was mistaking to believing its a federal institution. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (NIIT). But if am right then they have uper hand in handling the nations it sector and nations websites.


Just my little suggestions...

They are not a Federal institution. Just a private business. NIIT is in India. The ones in Nigeria are just franchises just like APTECH.

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Sincere 9gerian, Please help propagate this message to Oga Patapata At The Top. Only you have the Energy level to do such from an anonymous forum.

[size=18pt]who said Nigeria has no functional website?
www.fmi.gov.ng - thats the minsitry of information
www.fmti.gov.ng thats the trade and investment website
agric, petroluem etc have theirs
but all info about Nigeria can be gotten from the fmi.gov.ng portal [/size]

Nigeria has too many cheaply designed web sites , where are the professionals ?

Nigeria has a website.
www.ng. Dats it.
Are u sure?
Ask oga @ d top!

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apache77: [size=18pt]who said Nigeria has no functional website?
www.fmi.gov.ng - thats the minsitry of information
www.fmti.gov.ng thats the trade and investment website
agric, petroluem etc have theirs
but all info about Nigeria can be gotten from the fmi.gov.ng portal [/size]

all these are affiliates.

http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/ this is supposed to pay host to all others.

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When carpenter dey do shoemaker work,barber dey do engineer work.why e no go b like so?

I hate the way Nigerian journalists ply their trade. They are so incompetent and lazy.

The information ministry just announced they are about to launch an e-government portal, so what is the point of this thread. You only need to wait for the launch which is just a few days away and then you can critic the job. This thread is totally irrelevant.

HARDDON:

all these are affiliates.

http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/ this is supposed to pay host to all others.

it is an insult to call a Father the name of HIS child

Not true at all. Most of you just spew wrong information.

http://www.usa.gov/

That is the American government site. Doesnt pay host to all other sites. It is actually a simple site without any flare. Each department has a responsibility to promote their own site