Housing Ministry saves N400m annually with paperless system

The Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has said it saves more than N400 million annually on stationery since it replaced paper-based operations with an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system, Permanent Secretary, Dr. Shuaib Belgore, has disclosed.
Belgore made the disclosure in Abuja during the ministry’s commemoration of the first anniversary of the implementation and full deployment of the ECM platform, which is designed to improve efficiency, transparency, records management and service delivery.
The permanent secretary said the system, introduced in compliance with a directive from the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, was fully launched on September ...