Gmail, Yahoo and others will soon be officially banned for all government use, in a renewed security ethos designed to permeate through all tiers of government and its agencies and to protect state mechanism from deliberate and unintended abuse.
In its place, it will be compulsory for all federal civil servants to use only the .ng domain based websites and emails addresses.
Previous attempts to ban the use of so-called free email accounts like Yahoomail, Gmail, etc; and enforce the use of .ng based emails for government businesses were hobbled by bureaucracy coupled by the sore-footed and refractory approach of civil servants.
But the federal government, now wary of cyber snooping as well as the flagrant abuse and leakage of important government information through free email accounts may soon outlaw the practice.
A source at the presidency said that “very soon, the government will completely
outlaw e-mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo for official communications”“The new email policy when released will make it mandatory for government offices to communicate only on.gov.ng . rather than commercial email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc” according to the source.
The development comes close on heels of concerns that some civil servants have inadvertently transmitted sensitive government data and information through their own free email addresses which pose national security challenges.
There are also concerns by intelligence agencies, over use of email services, provided by foreign firms which have their servers located in overseas locations, making it difficult to track if sensitive government data is being snooped upon.
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View previous comments…Endy Edeson
Obanla: I know it will take a long time for all agencies to have functional custom email addresses for civil servants due to delay of doing things in the country
Michael Scofield
Only if it will work, have bring trying to open it for a while now still not active, FG should please make it functional before disabling it.
Frank Sylvanus
@Edeson we are the course of our problem. E.g Executive (President and his cabinet, Law makers and judiciary)... It can not work and if it works they we will deverse another means or it may be next generation. This generation is full of corruption. May God help us
Daniel Orji
nathaniel you made my point! what is the government trying to keep away from the people? need to be educated pls.somebody should educate me
Bussy Duro
They are all thieves, they are trying to protect themselves from the money they've been stealing.
Bussy Duro
God pass them.
