By Adeyinka Adeniran
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been recognized as one of the top three Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) with the best website performance in 2025 by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR).
The NCC came second in the ranking, behind Galaxy Backbone Limited, which took the first position, and ahead of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), which came third.
The BPSR evaluated 235 MDAs’ websites based on 14 criteria, including website compliance, appearance, content, structure, responsiveness, security, and usability.
The recognition was announced at the official release of the Federal Government’s 2024/2025 Scorecard Ranking for MDAs’ Website in Abuja.
The NCC’s Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Abraham Oshadami, received the award on behalf of the Executive Vice Chairman, Dr. Aminu Maida, and appreciated the BPSR for the recognition.
The award is a testament to the Commission’s commitment to maintaining a world-class website that enhances service delivery to citizens.
The BPSR Director-General, Mr. Dasuki Arabi, commended the top three MDAs for their proactive decisions in maintaining world-class websites that comply with the Federal Government’s policy direction on effective and efficient service delivery. He emphasized the importance of harnessing technological tools for service delivery, particularly in the post-COVID era.
While presenting the award to the NCC, alongside other two agencies, BPSR’s Director-General, Mr. Dasuki Arabi, commended the top three for their proactive decisions in maintaining world-class websites, which are compliant with the Federal Government’s policy direction in effective and efficient service delivery to the citizens.
According to the DG, the 2024/2025 MDA’s websites’ ranking represents a collective effort of federal public institutions in Nigeria to be transparent, accountable and open in governance, as well as a confirmation to align with global best practices in service delivery to the citizens.
Developed about six years ago, Arabi said as a result of the annual ranking, more public institutions have indicated readiness to embrace reforms, and align with the policy direction of the current administration’s Renewed Hope agenda on improve governance for effective service delivery, as introduced by His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The ideals of harnessing and deploying technological tools for service delivery has become imperative following the COVID pandemic, and distortions of socio-economic system of nations, culminating in the evolution of competitiveness, cost effectiveness, and agile governance.
“As engine room of governance, it behoves on us in the public service to perform our statutory duties and we must put in place technological innovations and standardized websites to operate services as well as deliver service needs to citizens,” he said.
The Scorecard exercise, he said, is part of the BPSR reform broader function of conducting research on reform implementation efforts and presenting ‘best practice’ models to the entire Public Service, and to among others, improve access to government information, facilitate seamless financial transaction, eliminate corruption and cyber theft, as well as facilitate access to government services.
Speaking on the rigorous nature of the exercise that produced the top three winners, the DG said “in the past few weeks members of the Scorecard Jury drawn from inter-Ministerial Agencies, had worked tirelessly to mill websites of selected MDAs through a rigorous process of enduring criteria for the ranking and the outcome had also passed through a quality assurance mechanism to validate the outcome.”
