By Chinenye Anuforo
The Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) has partnered with the Nigeria eGovernment Summit 2025 for its forthcoming summit, which seeks to drive digital governance across the country.
Scheduled to hold August 28, 2025 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, the summit, which is in its seventh edition, has the theme: ‘Public-Private Partnership for Effective eGovernnent Service Delivery’.
President of NACC, Sheriff Balogun, who confirmed the chamber’s partnership in a letter dated May 23, 2025, said the success recorded by the summit over the years, inspired it to collaborate with the organisers of the summit in order to further enhance efficiency in the application of technology in government service delivery and processes.
“The chamber is pleased to partner with your organization for the success of this event, and we are confident that the collaboration will be mutually beneficial in enhancing efficiency in the application of technology in government service delivery and processes,” Balogun said in his letter.
Organised by DigiServe Networks Services, in partnerships with the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the summit seeks to bring together, government and technology services providers, including the citizens who are the beneficiaries of technology services, to discuss the importance of leveraging emerging technologies that enhance government services delivery to citizens.
Distinguished professionals have been lined up as speakers for the summit to discuss several topics built around the theme.
Convener of Nigeria eGovernment Summit, Lanre Ajayi, while speaking at a press conference in Lagos to announce this year’s summit, said: “Nigerian citizens deserve good governance to better their lives. Government needs to embrace emerging technologies to facilitate effective government service delivery. The summit will promote discussions around eGovernance and proffer solutions to effective governance through collaboration and public-private partnerships.”
Ajayi commended the federal and state governments for the progress recorded so far in leveraging technology in delivering government services to the people, but he however said technology adoption by the government was still slow, insisting that more have to be done.
According to him, the objective is to set an agenda for the federal and state governments on the adoption of new technologies for service delivery, encourage government at all levels to drive their service delivery with technology, and propose to governments, solutions and strategies required for effective deployment of eGovernment services, among others.
The summit provides a platform where government officials and experts in various specializations in ICT can interact, share perspectives and develop a roadmap to mainstreaming ICT in various departments of government.