Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that Nigeria needs an institution that will produce cutting edge artificial intelligence applications for national development.
He stated that there must be an institution whose sole objective is to inspire innovation, inventions and research that address the most crucial problems of the nation and the world.
Speaking at a board meeting on the establishment of the Nigerian University of Technology and Management (NUTM) in Lagos, Osinbajo demanded to solve some peculiar health challenges. “How do we solve peculiar African health challenges such as sickle cell anaemia, fibroids and cancers,” he asked.
Clearly we need an institution that will be able to provide the necessary atmosphere to invent agricultural inputs and guarantee the huge yields per average in dairy and livestock to meet the food security needs of a country headed for the third position in population size in a few short years.
“An institution that will produce cutting edge artificial intelligence applications for education, business, medicine, and security. One that can design the educational innovation required to train millions of children in or out of classrooms all across the country and provide the techniques for delivering opportunities in technology on scale,” he added.
Osinbajo said that Nigeria must produce world-class economists, managers of commerce in a world increasingly disrupted by technology and innovation.
He said the nation must convert its best young minds to creative thinkers, innovators in science, technology, economy, commerce and public finance.
