Congratulations people, you did it! After many impassioned tweets and news features, you finally bullied the ogas at the top into putting up a functional national website. Go, have a look for yourself. If you’re wondering whether all this is worth
babbling about, rest assured, it’s huge. Just look
at what the old website used to look like before
now. It’s still a long way off But progress is progress, innit? It doesn’t matter that quite a few of the images on the landing page are broken. Or that someone had trouble with spelling “e-governance”. We
can’t seem to agree on the number of political parties or acronyms, hence the link to the political parties page doesn’t work. The design looks like something that came out of 2004. But I really need to stop nit-picking, and be more positive for a change. All that matters is that now at least we have something less embarrassing that what used to be on there. Hopefully, it didn’t
cost too much tax-payers’ money. Would you like to take a stroll through Nigeria’s
website through the years? A look through
the Wayback Machine shows that Nigeria.gov.ng has undergone a few bizarre metamorphoses. Be advised though — time has not been kind, and a lot of detail (mostly images) has been lost, making the site look more grotesque than it actually was at the time. Here’s the website from 2002 2003
2004
2005 - Under construction 2006
2007
2008 - Some geniuses decided to call it “Nigeria Direct”.
2009
2010 The site apparently received a face lift after Yar’Adua passed on to reflect the ascension of Goodluck Jonathan, the new oga at the top.
2011
2012 - June – here’s where we revert to using images as a landing page. By December, the site’s
handlers decided that they were now minimalists. And of course, we’re in 2013. Cheers all, drinks all around. Here’s to the Federal Ministry of Information, and to just over a decade of international sucking on the web.

http://ynaija.com/politico/nigeria-has-a-spanking-new-slightly-less-embarrassing-website/

http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/index.php

Thank God