{"id":59837,"date":"2025-01-23T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59837"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:50:15","slug":"nigerias-first-ai-university-to-open-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/23\/nigerias-first-ai-university-to-open-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s First AI University to Open in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is set to open its first artificial intelligence (AI), university in Epe, Lagos, marking a significant milestone in advancing AI education across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Named Wini University, the institution aims to equip young Nigerians with advanced AI skills, addressing unemployment and positioning the continent as a hub for technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the first AI university in Qatar, Wini University aspires to attract top-tier academics and innovators from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The project, initiated in 2016 by a visionary collaboration between Nigerian and Boston-based experts, has undergone years of planning, securing National Universities Commission (NUC), interest, and building stakeholder support.<\/p>\n<p>Wini University is envisioned as Africa&#8217;s first AI-focused institution and the foundation for an AI-powered Silicon Valley on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to foster a thriving community of academics and students passionate about leveraging AI and quantum computing to drive progress in Africa and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond academics, the university seeks to transform Lagos into Africa\u2019s innovation hub, where technology is harnessed to solve real-world challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum will include cutting-edge fields such as blockchain, cloud computing, generative AI, data science, and machine learning, preparing students to lead in the global AI market.<\/p>\n<p>This bold initiative underscores the growing importance of AI, echoing Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s 2013 declaration that dominance in AI would define the next global superpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Nigeria is set to open its first artificial intelligence (AI), university in Epe, Lagos, marking a significant milestone in advancing AI education across Africa. Named Wini University, the institution aims to equip young Nigerians with advanced AI skills, addressing unemployment and positioning the continent as a hub for technological innovation. Inspired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59839,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59837\/revisions\/59839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}