The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) has named the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) among the top three Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Nigerian Government with the Best Ranking in Website Performance for 2025.
Penpushing reports that the recognition was announced at the official release of Nigerian Government 2024/2025 Scorecard Ranking for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)MDAs’ Website.
The event was held at the Federal Ministry of Finance Auditorium in Abuja on Monday December 22, 2025, while the award presentation took place at Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) office on Tuesday December 23, 2025 in Abuja
Penpushing further reports that the cheering news is coming barely three weeks after the telecom regulator was recognized as one of the top five best-performing federal government agencies for 2025 by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) – a testament to the Commission’s consistency in investment in technology for ensuring efficient service delivery.
The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) In its 2024/2025 scorecard ranking of agencies’ websites, showed that Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) came second in the ranking.
Penpushing also reports that the commission trailed behind Galaxy Backbone Limited, which came first while the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) clinched the third position, from a pool of 235 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), whose website were evaluated.
The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) deployed 14 evaluation criteria include Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) website compliance with.gov.ng domain name, appearance and aesthetics (look and feel) of the website, content, relevance to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) mandate /government policy and the website’ structure.
Penpushing reports that others include website’s responsiveness (device compatibility), security, load time, usability/ease of navigation, availability/uptime, functionality, interactivity, accessibility and capacity building.
The award, which is an important index metric of the National e-Government Masterplan for determining the Nigeria e-Government Status, was received by the Commission in recognition of its commitment to maintaining a world-class website that enhances service delivery to the citizens.
Penpushing further reports that receiving the award on behalf of the Executive Vice Chairman of the agency, Dr. Aminu Maida, the commission’s Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Abraham Oshadami, appreciated the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) for the recognition.
The Executive Chairman described the award as another encouragement for the commission to be a better public service institution leveraging digital platforms such as the commission’s web presence to enhance public service delivery to various stakeholders, thereby implementing the Nigerian government’s Ease of Doing Business policy direction.”
Penpushing also reports that while presenting the award to the commission, alongside other two agencies, Director-General, of Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR)Mr. Dasuki Arabi, commended the top three for their proactive decisions in maintaining world-class websites, which are compliant with the Nigerian government’s policy direction in effective and efficient service delivery to the citizens.
The Director General said the 2024/2025 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) 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.
Penpushing reports that 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’, he said
“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 added.
Penpushing further reports that he stated that the Scorecard exercise, is part of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (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.
The Director General speaking on the rigorous nature of the exercise that produced the top three winners, pointed out that in the past few weeks members of the Scorecard Jury drawn from inter-Ministerial Agencies, had worked tirelessly to mill websites of selected Ministries, Departments and Agencies (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.
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