Presidency Admits Some MDAs, Parastatals Don't Update Their Website

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Presidency Admits Some MDAs, Parastatals Don't  Update Their Website

The presidency today admitted that most of the  Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) of government do not update their websites, saying it makes it difficult for Nigerians, and even foreign investors to have access to information.
It however said there would be changes in a couple of months.

The Senior Special Adviser to the President on New Media, Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi, dropped the hint in Abuja at the launching of Conversations for Change (C4C) Media Strategy,  aimed at creating platform to inform, empower and provide plaform for young people to exchange ideas and have their voices heard.

According to him, "What we met on ground when we started was that there is no online record of the previous government for the past five years."

He added that: "It is true that government parastatals and MDAs don't have up-to-date information on their website. But in another couple of months there will be changes."
Ogunlesi noted: "every month, 16 million Nigerians use facebook, 7 million of those people use Facebook daily,  Blackberry Messenger (BBM), they are almost 5 million, Twitter is a couple of millions, connected mobile phones is 150 million, about 90 millions of those mobile phones are connected to the internet monthly."

Ogunlesi said there had never been any media that cover a large part of the population as the social media, stressing that it is interesting to be part of C4C that is determined to bring young people together with social media, which has been known as the default mode of communication for young people.

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