The Communications and Digital Economy Minister, Isa Patami has said that the federal government has asked ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to stop using private email: yahoo.com hotmail.com gmail.com. and internet domains for official communication.
The minister speaking on Wednesday after Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting said that the government will not tolerate any government agencies communicating officially through those generic domains and that if they must use official email and that email should not be a generic one, it must be ‘.gov.ng.’ What is most important is ‘.ng’ that is our national identity,”
He said “This policy has been approved, and it focuses more on mandating federal public institutions, ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs) and all institutions as long as they are for government; they should migrate from using generic domains in their websites and their emails to our second-level domain under government top-level domain,” he said.
“For example, you will discover today, some government institutions will engage in official communications using private email: yahoo.com hotmail.com gmail.com. And it is an official communication and someone may retire or will complete his tenure or the tenure can be terminated, and he will go with the same email. And in that email, there are many official documents.”
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“So, this will not be tolerated by the government anymore. Any official communications must be using an official email and that email should not be a generic one, it must be ‘.gov.ng.’ What is most important is ‘.ng’ that is our national identity,” the minister added.
“There are many categories of the second-level domain, some are for military, you will see like mil.ng mil is a short form of military ng for Nigeria. You can see .gov.ng — Gov for government and ng for Nigeria.
“So, there are categories of the second-level domain, while our country top-level domain.ng must be there in our websites so that whoever gets access will know that this website is from Nigeria, while for email, it must reflect the official name.
