{"id":234175,"date":"2026-05-23T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fg-launches-ai-platform-on-whatsapp-to-boost-access-to-government-services\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:33:04","slug":"nigeria-fg-launches-ai-platform-on-whatsapp-to-boost-access-to-government-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fg-launches-ai-platform-on-whatsapp-to-boost-access-to-government-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: FG Launches Ai Platform On Whatsapp to Boost Access to Government Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The federal government has launched an artificial intelligence-powered platform aimed at improving citizens&#8217; access to government information and public services through WhatsApp and the web.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, announced the initiative in a post on X on Thursday, describing it as a step toward more inclusive and technology-driven governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to him, the platform&#8211;GovGuideNigeria&#8211;is available in English, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605220638.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has launched an artificial intelligence-powered platform aimed at improving citizens&#8217; access to government information and public services through WhatsApp and the web. Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, announced the initiative in a post on X on Thursday, describing it as a step toward more inclusive and technology-driven governance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[6450,258,256,6557,6427,5957,257,4687,393,7658,7155,254,12236],"class_list":["post-234175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-government","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-platform","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-whatsapp"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}