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The Nigerian Information Technology professionals in America (NITPA) has called for massive training of Civil Servants in Information Communications Technology. ICT, skills as over N50 billion is lost annually in low productivity due to untrained labor force in the country.

It is indeed a great honour done to me personally and the state of Jigawa in particular, to be invited to deliver this briefing to a distinguished gathering like this. It is really pleasurable to have this opportunity to share our experience in Jigawa with people who have excelled and reached the peak of their careers.

Federal Government yesterday inaugurated the Board of Directors to oversee the activities of the National e-Government Strategies Limited (NeGSt). The board is chaired by the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Prof. Ajayi.

Inaugurating the board in Abuja, Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Turner Isoun, noted that NeGSt has within a short time, been able to help increase productivity, institutional transparency, accountability, and efficiency resulting in unprecedented and radical economic and technological growths.

Revolutions brought about by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have translated into transparency and good governance.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are seen as essential tools for development and their roles in enthroning transparency and good governance, this 21st century cannot be over looked.

Following the approval by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of the first switching firm to provide e-payment transaction services in Nigeria, the country has jumped another step towards the development of cashless transaction in the economy.

The new technology in payment system is designed to ease the rampant movement of huge money from one place to another and help customers to access their account balances in not only their banks, but in any participating bank in the country.