Thursday, September 18, 2025 - Nigeria and other African nations have been urged to
invest in and deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategically.
Beyond AI serving as a script writer, aiding students to do
assignments, and helping writers to write, it has been highlighted that the
deeper utilisation of AI in helping humans solve major issues in science,
health, humanities, and arts, among others, should be the new focus if Africa
must be competitive.
Hosting African journalists yesterday in Perag, Malaysia, as
part of the ongoing V-Convention Malaysia 2025 September Edition, organised by
QNET, the Chief Executive Officer, Global Integrated Training Associates (GITA)
at Quest International University (QIU), Dr Nicholas Goh, said Nigeria and,
indeed, Africa can do more with emerging technologies, especially AI.
At the Malaysian event, Goh described AI as the future,
saying African countries should not be left behind, noting that more
revolutions around the technology were yet to be unveiled.
Goh, a computer science expert, recalled that just like when
calculators were first discovered, where students were being stopped from usage
on the basis that it won’t make students think analytically,
“but what is happening now, calculators are used everywhere. The same thing is
happening now to AI, where people are prevented, especially students, from
using it; it shouldn’t be so. AI should complement our abilities. At the
universities here, we encourage students to use AI, especially as a tool to do
things that are humanly impossible to do.”
In her remarks, the Vice Chancellor, QIU, Perag, Malaysia,
Prof. Zita Mohd Fahmi, denounced claims that the university has satellite
campuses in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, a claim which scammers had used
to defraud many Nigerians and other Africans.
The VC said: “We do not exist outside the campus at Perag,
Malaysia. No immediate plans to set up elsewhere, especially in Africa. We want
to consolidate more in Malaysia. There is nothing like what we are offering,
scholarships to foreign students, which scammers have used to rob many people
of their hard-earned money and subsequently damaged the reputation of QIU and
QNET.”
MEANWHILE, the United States of America has emerged as the
most innovative country in AI with the highest number of AI models created and
$77.6 billion invested in the sector.
With the global AI market valued at over €130 billion and expected to grow to nearly €1.9 trillion by 2030, Singapore emerged as the strongest country for the demand of AI talent, where there are over 200 job openings per one million residents.
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