COMPLY WITH FG DIRECTIVES......NITDA DG TELLS MDA'S

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"Any Ministry, Department or Agency MDA's of the Federal Government that has failed to have its website running on Nigeria's domain name; .gov.ng, will henceforth be blacklisted".

This was the warning by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) today in Abuja in a statement made available to the media.



NITDA's Director General and CEO, Dr. Ali Isa Ibrahim Pantami in the statement, disclosed that most of the agencies still run their websites on generic top level domain (gTLD) and the agency has observed the disregard to the use of .gov.ng domain in transaction of government business despite previous warning.

"NITDA would henceforth ensure strict compliance stressing that government business transactions should be carried out in the country's code top level domain of the Nigerian government (ccTLD.ng)", Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami stated.

According to the NITDA CEO, "for easy compliance, NITDA would henceforth approve request for .gov.ng within 24 hours, with the provision of special purpose phone numbers coupled with regular evaluation of agencies sites".

"Furthermore, .gov.ng domain names are free with no rental or renewal cost attached. We therefore call on all MDAs and service providers to support government on the scale on the scale of ease of doing business".

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