Many federal ministries
and agencies lack active websites despite spending billions of naira on
information technology last year, Daily Trust investigations have shown.
Two
key agencies under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology are absent
online. One of them is the National Space Research Development Agency (NASDRA),
which is responsible for Nigeria’s space programme and policy development of
space science and technology.
Another key agency
absent online is the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI). A part of
its mandate is to synergise with other related agencies to commercialize
Nigeria’s indigenous products in the areas of technology and business management.
Similarly,
the website of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) is rarely
updated. When Daily Trust reporter visited it last night, the former Director
General of the agency, Prof Lucy Ogbadu, whose tenure ended about two months ago,
was still displayed on the website, as the DG.
Even
the link to the press release that announced the appointment of Mr Abayomi
Oguntade as acting DG on January 28, 2018, was not found on the website.
No comments:
Post a Comment