FEDERAL Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a newly re-designed
online platform of the Bureau for Public Service Reforms for the Freedom of
Information with Http://www.bpsr.gov.nG
The Director-General of BPSR, Dr. Joe Abah described the
innovation during the event in Abuja as epoch-making and first of its kind in
the history of public institutions in the country adding that the platform will
encourage transparency in the system.
Abah used the opportunity to call on all public institutions in
the country to adopt similar mechanisms that will encourage openness and
transparency which will facilitate access tp information thereby improve
qualitative governance in Nigeria.
“We are proud to be the first government agency in Nigeria to have
an electronic platform for receiving Freedom of Information requests. The
website’s FoI Portal will allow the public submit real time online FoI
requests, receive feedback and had also made provision for appeals. We are
reviewing cases of any wrongful denial of information by NPSR officials”, he
said.
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