Galaxy Backbone

Galaxy Backbone is a wholly-owned enterprise of the Federal Government of Nigeria established and mandated to be the provider of ICT infrastructure and services to Ministries, Departments and Agencies ("MDAs") of the Federal Government as well as other public institutions. It was established in 2006 based on the need for the government to pursue a coordinated and harmonized approach to information and communications technology acquisition, operation and use in the public sector. It leverages its shared ICT services platform to integrate public sector institutions and other stakeholders for the purposes of mutual improvement, knowledge exchange and transfer towards attaining national development objectives.