{"id":61475,"date":"2025-02-18T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61475"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:06:10","slug":"nigeria-aims-to-digitize-75-of-government-services-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/18\/nigeria-aims-to-digitize-75-of-government-services-by-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Aims to Digitize 75% of Government Services by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government is intensifying efforts to establish a functional e-governance system, targeting the digitization of at least 75% of public services by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, disclosed this during a meeting with a delegation from the Ukrainian Embassy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that NITDA is developing a one-stop digital platform modeled after successful e-governance systems in countries like the United Kingdom and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Inuwa emphasized the need for legal backing to facilitate the transition, noting that digital government services thrive on well-defined policies and robust technological frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to achieve this, we need the right laws in place to ensure a smooth and effective digital transformation,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Nigerian government is intensifying efforts to establish a functional e-governance system, targeting the digitization of at least 75% of public services by 2027. Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, disclosed this during a meeting with a delegation from the Ukrainian Embassy in Nigeria. He revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61477,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475\/revisions\/61477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}