NIGERIA - Use of private e-mail networks like Gmail, Yahoo and others would 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 would 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..."
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