The Director-General (DG) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has called on Nigerian universities to take decisive steps toward embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an essential driver of the nation’s future.
In a statement signed by Caroline Embu, the scheme’s Director of Information and Public Relations, the NYSC DG stated this while speaking in a lecture delivered at the 23rd Convocation Ceremony of Igbinedion University, Okada.
During the ceremony, General Nafiu stressed that AI was already reshaping global education and Nigeria must choose whether to guide this transformation or be overtaken by it.
The NYSC Boss noted that Nigeria’s youthful population, 60 per cent of whom were under 25, placed the country at a strategic crossroads, adding that this demographic advantage could become a national asset with the right investment in AI literacy and academic reform.
According to him, estimates suggested that Nigeria’s AI market could grow by 27% annually and contribute as much as $15 billion to the country’s GDP by 2030.
