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Lagos earns more with IT
From its huge
investment in IT in the last five years, Lagos State has
increased its annual internally generated revenue from
N600 million to N3 billion. It has been able to provide
basic computer education for about 10,000 of its over
40,000 civil servants. This makes it the state with the
highest number of civil servants that are computer
literates. Lagos is a city of about 13 million people and
has the biggest civil service machine in the federation of
36 states.
The newly
introduced e-Tax clearance system has improved the revenue
generation capacity of the state, said Mr. Akin Doherty,
the state’s commissioner for Science and Technology in an
address to commemorate the first year anniversary of
Governor Bola Tinubu second term in office. Lagos
initiated the Global Computerisation Project (GCP) about
four years ago.
| [“Our billion
naira investment is not a waste,” Doherty
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The GCP is an ERP
solution designed by Oracle to provide a wireless network
that would bring all government’s ministries, agencies and
departments into a common data pool that could be accessed
by authorised persons within government. There is already
a wireless area network (WAN) at the Alausa Secretariat,
where all ministries, governor’s offices and the state
assembly are located. These have been linked wirelessly to
provide for video conferencing, voice and data exchange,
and reduce the leg work among officials within the
secretariat.
As part of the
Oracle software implementation, Lagos health sector is
already being computerise starting with the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. Key areas to be
computerised include medical records, pharmacy,
consultation, drug stores, surgery and the mortuary to
make the retrieval of medical records and drug auditing
possible merely by a simple mouse click.
There are over 150
computer graduates at the service of the state and the
implementation of the second phase of the User Learning
Adoption (ULA) initiative has started for the training of
8,000 civil servants to competently run the Oracle
Financial Modules. About 10,000 officers had already
undergone the ULA initiative on basic computer knowledge
and Oracle applications. The GCP has consumed over N3
billion.
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