The Nigerian government has initiated the process of adopting standardised national websites for all national and public institutions.
This initiative aims to promote a unified online identity, improve accessibility, and ensure that government websites meet international standards for design, functionality, and security.
The Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy. will facilitate the national standardized websites initiative.
The Ministry organised a co-create group to make recommendations of key features that should be on the websites and they came up with recommendations that would be subject to approval by the relevant stakeholders.
This disclosure was made at the April Edition of DevsInGovernment for 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, and tagged Designing Together: Building a Unified Look for Government Websites.
The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, used the opportunity to call for collaboration amongst stakeholders within the public sector in order to move the initiative forward.
Mr. Saliu AbdulKareem, who represented the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), explained that the websites would have the Nigerian colour, the ministry’s logo and the coat of arms.
Abdulkareem explained that the standardised websites would not start and end at the executive level but would take a bottom-up approach.
According to the NITDA representative, “These websites will look Nigerian. Secondly, it will also help these users to be sure that these websites are actually genuine websites.
“If they have uniformity and conformity, people will really understand that this is a true Nigerian website. It is a government website. I think the idea is to come up with a framework. So basically, this is all about working bottom up, by coming up with different ideas, then a framework and then later the framework will be looked at at a higher level for implementation,” he said.
The Special Adviser Digital Transformation of the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Ms. Nafisa Isah, who organised the co-create project, stated that it was to build trust in government digital transactions.
“We are talking about the Nigerian Web Design Standards Project, which is a project by the Ministry in collaboration with NITDA. This project is aimed to create standardised principles, design principles, frameworks and guidelines for all Nigerian government websites. So, what else do you want? This is providing accessibility and enhanced user experience for all the government websites. He declared.
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According to Ms. Isah, the idea of this project is to ensure consistency in the design across all the government websites.
“This will in turn, foster transparency, accountability, and more efficient public service delivery across all the MDAs,” she said.
The standardisation process will enable citizens to access government services and information seamlessly, fostering transparency and accountability in governance.
The adoption of standardised national websites is expected to have a positive impact on Nigeria’s digital economy, enhance the overall online experience for citizens and promote digital inclusion.
