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Nigeria AI agenda expands to education, SMEs, infrastructure

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Nigeria AI agenda expands to education and education, SMEs, infrastructure

Nigeria’s AI agenda, launched in early June 2026, continues to broaden is widening across education, governance, agriculture and digital infrastructure. In July, July the University of Benin inaugurated opened an on‑campus AI Centre funded by philanthropists Tom Ilube and Hakeem Belo‑Osagie, part of a Trust Development Fund that also backs supports student housing, ICT upgrades and renewable‑energy projects, linking talent development with digital infrastructure. Graduate researcher Ighodalo Uyi Ebhodaghe presented spoke at the COPA AI 2026 summit in Wales, calling for urging stronger AI ethics, transparency ethics and public trust. The event dovetails with trust, echoing the Senate‑passed Economy Bill and the National Digital Economy and e‑Governance Bill, Bill which promote AI sandboxes, classification frameworks sandboxes and responsible deployment. On 18 July the federal government signed an MoU with Morocco’s OCP Africa and Ground Truth Analytics to launch the National Agro‑Productivity System, a satellite‑based AI platform covering up to 15 states to provide for real‑time yield intelligence and build domestic precision‑agriculture capability. The same day a specialised precision‑agriculture. A four‑day Lagos workshop on AI‑driven cybercrime and digital evidence was held in Lagos, bringing together prosecutors, judges and investigators and highlighting the need for highlighted coordinated, intelligence‑driven responses to AI‑assisted offences. Further education Education milestones arrived continued on 24 July when the National Universities Commission (NUC) granted regulatory clearance to cleared American Open University Nigeria for three AI‑integrated postgraduate programmes (MBA, MSc IT, MPA), emphasizing that AI should be embedded rather than appended to curricula. The NUC also and licensed the new Transatlantic University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Anambra State to commence academic activities across three faculties. In the K‑12 sector, State. Whiteplains British School in Abuja introduced “Mr Okeke”, an AI‑driven virtual teacher tutor billed as Africa’s first AI tutor, aimed at personalising aiming to personalise learning while complementing teachers. These developments reinforce calls from academia The following day the federal government and industry leaders for mandatory Access Bank launched a programme to accelerate AI literacy across curricula adoption among micro, small and tighter collaboration medium enterprises. At the Access Bank MSME Digital Growth Conference in Lagos the Access SME Application was unveiled, offering digital tools and financing. Officials stressed that MSMEs account for roughly half of GDP and 84% of employment, linking AI‑enabled inventory, analytics and supply‑chain optimisation to nurture home‑grown AI solutions. President Bola Tinubu’s $1 trillion‑economy goal.

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