Nigeria Moves to Standardise Government Websites Through National Web Design Project

The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy (FMICIDE)  and the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation  person wrapped up a two-day store focused connected the Nigeria Web Design Standards (NWDS) Project. Held connected July 18 and 19, 2025, the store brought unneurotic integer experts, designers and cardinal stakeholders successful nationalist work to signifier the look, structure, and functionality of authorities websites crossed the country.

The NWDS Project, led by the Honourable Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, is portion of a bigger effort to marque authorities websites easier to use, much consistent, and amended aligned with the needs of mundane Nigerians.

“This store marks a important measurement successful our travel to alteration however citizens acquisition authorities online. By standardising the plan and functionality of nationalist assemblage websites, we are laying the instauration for a much accessible, inclusive, and businesslike integer government. I’m grateful to the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation for partnering with america to beforehand this important project.”

–Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani, Honourable Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Nigeria. 

He highlighted however the NWDS ties into the Ministry’s broader imaginativeness to present inclusive, efficient, and transparent integer services to citizens. Under his leadership, the Ministry has launched respective initiatives, including the 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) programme, which is helping young Nigerians summation cardinal integer skills. Other efforts see expanding broadband coverage, processing AI and integer nationalist infrastructure strategies, and moving with planetary partners to presumption Nigeria arsenic a person successful the integer space.

The Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation’s engagement successful the NWDS Project builds connected its ongoing efforts to beforehand integer adoption successful Nigeria’s nationalist sector. The Foundation played a cardinal relation successful the digitalisation of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, a groundbreaking inaugural that has encouraged galore different Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to statesman their ain integer translation journeys. This increasing momentum has been further strengthened done the Foundation’s signing of Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the Federal Ministry of Justice, the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, and the Federal Civil Service Commission, aimed astatine expanding and deepening digitalisation crossed the nationalist service.

“The instauration of a nationalist modular for authorities websites is simply a bold and indispensable step. It says to each Nigerian, we are 1 government, moving unneurotic to service you better. A standardised attack volition guarantee our websites are not lone aesthetically aligned, but besides functional, accessible, and user-centric, gathering the divers needs of Nigerians astatine location and abroad.”

–Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, CFR, Chairman, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation.

The Ministry and the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation stay committed to their efforts to physique a standardised web acquisition for everyone accessing authorities services online.