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Nigeria’s paperless push stalls as 98% of MDAs stuck offline - BUSINESSDAY
As Nigeria races toward its December 31, 2025 digitisation deadline, just 22 federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), representing 98 percent, are fully connected to the 1GovCloud platform, according to sources familiar with the matter. The figure represents a tiny fraction of Nigeria’s more than 1,300 federal MDAs, raising serious concerns about bureaucratic inertia, and whether one of the country’s most ambitious digital reforms can be delivered as promised. The federal government had mandated all MDAs to migrate to the 1GovAs Nigeria races toward its December 31, 2025 digitisation deadline, just 22 federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), representing 98 percent, are fully connected to the 1GovCloud platform, according to sources familiar with the matter. The figure represents a tiny fraction of Nigeria’s more than 1,300 federal MDAs, raising serious concerns about bureaucratic inertia, and whether one of the country’s most ambitious digital reforms can be delivered as promised.
