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From Obinna Odogwu, Awka
The Anambra State Government, through its ICT agency, yesterday, announced that it was intensifying the implementation of Nigeria’s National Second Level Domain Policy, which mandates the use of official Nigerian government domain extensions (e.g., .gov.ng, .edu.ng, .mil.ng) for all public institutions.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), on February 16, 2022, approved the policy which made it mandatory for all government-owned websites and official email correspondences of all government personnel to comply.
It reportedly bans, strictly, the use of generic domains and private emails for official government correspondence.
The Anambra ICT Agency, in a statement by its spokesperson, Mrs Angela Nwanodu, said that the government was accelerating the state-wide adoption of its official government email domain, @anambrastate.gov.ng, as part of efforts to strengthen digital governance and ensure that official government communication is secure, standardised, and verifiable.
The initiative, coordinated by the agency, is being implemented across all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).
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“An official government email address is more than a communication tool; it is the government’s trusted digital identity”, Nwanodu said.
“Using a unified government domain helps protect official correspondences from impersonation, improves cybersecurity, strengthens accountability, and gives citizens confidence that official communications genuinely originate from the Anambra State Government.”
Nwanodu said that the initiative aligns with the country’s 2022 National Second Level Domain Policy, revealing that the State Executive Council has already achieved full adoption of the official government domain.
“ICTA is coordinating state-wide onboarding of all MDAs. The migration includes account provisioning, identity verification, staff sensitisation, and technical support.
“The initiative supports Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s vision of “Everything Technology, Technology Everywhere” and ICTA’s roadmap towards becoming an AI-First Native Agency”, she added.
