Senate Committee on Public Accounts has said the bane of Nigeria’s public accounts system is that the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF) is usually underfunded.
Its Vice Chairman, Ibrahim Hadejia, who spoke with National Assembly correspondents in Abuja, said to overcome challenges in the country’s public accounts system, corruption had to defeated through e-governance and the proposed Federal Audit Bill rather than spend so much on anti-corruption agencies haunt defaulters after corruption has been perpetrated.
Read more: Senate committee lists challenges of Nigeria’s public accounts system
At various fora across the country last year, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and chief executive officers of government agencies in the maritime sector restated the Federal Government’s plan to establish a national single window (NSW) at the ports to facilitate clearance and export of goods. Oluwakemi Dauda examines some of the issues inhibiting the implementation of the NSW and efforts aimed at tackling them.
Despite promises made by the Federal Government last year and the previous one, Nigeria remains the only country without a single-window platform in Africa in an age where information technology drives every process. The country has continued to trail behind other African nations in the automation of processes at the seaports.
Read more: NG: Issues against National Single Window’s take-off
To ensure a sustainable development of futuristic smart city anywhere in the country, government at all levels have been urged to invest massively in data infrastructure necessary to deliver services.
According to experts in built environment, it is impossible to have smart cities without huge investments in geospatial data.
Leading the call, Rector, Federal School of Survey, Oyo, Dr. Dupe Nihinlola, stated that smart city required substantial funding for its creation and maintenance, adding that its function was within computing infrastructure and collection of large quantity of data to create an environment for efficiency and conservation.
Read more: NG: Smart city: Huge investment in data essential – Experts
- Begins new state GIS mapping by March
- To have laid 3000 metro-fibre by year-end
- Deploys 2000 CCTV cameras for security, smart city project
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service will now discharge its statutory duties with the use of technology.
He noted that the digital initiatives would complement other electronic services introduced in the transportation sector to boost the state’s capacity to become a smart city and transform the economy.
Read more: NG: Lagos automates vehicle inspection, demands traffic law enforcement