Alia’s Govtech Honour: A recognition that did not come as a surprise

Governor Hyacinth Alia was yesterday decorated with an grant by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Presidency, arsenic the Digital Governor of the Year 2026. 

The Nigeria GOVTECH Public Service Award 2026 was an denotation that erstwhile enactment delivers results, designation ceases to beryllium a astonishment and becomes an affirmation of performance. 

This precise important grant to the Governor is simply a fitting nationalist endorsement of an medication repositioning Benue State done integer innovation, organization reforms and technology-driven governance. The honour is simply a existent designation of a imaginativeness being translated into institutions, infrastructure and measurable progress.

The Federal Government’s designation follows a comparative appraisal of integer authorities show crossed states, covering integer work delivery, infrastructure, organization readiness, transparency, innovation and partnerships. Governor Alia’s enactment acknowledges the increasing relation of exertion successful his administration’s attack to governance.

A large pillar of this translation is the Benue Digital Infrastructure Company PLC (BDIC), established by the Alia medication successful 2024 to thrust the state’s integer transformation. In 2025, BDIC won the “Best State ICT Agency” grant astatine the aforesaid nationalist GovTech awards, providing an aboriginal in...