The Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Afe Babalola, SAN, has been appointed the pioneer Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the National Association of Artificial Intelligence Practitioners (NAAIP).
Other members of the NAAIP’s BoT include former National University Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary and the brain behind the formation of the association, Prof. Peter Okebukola; Prof. Rukayat Ahmed Rufai, Prof. Suleiman Ambali, Prof. Anayo Ugochukwu and Chucks Igwillo (SAN).
The appointment was contained in a letter dated June 13, 2024, and delivered to Babalola by a four-man team led by the NAAIP President and the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede.
Others in the team were ABUAD Vice Chancellor, who is also the NAAIP Vice President (South-West), Prof. Smaranda Olarinde; NAAIP Secretary-General, Dr Kehinde Abiola and Chairman of TETFUND Technical Advisory Group in Abuja, Prof. Albert Abegunde.
Ogunbodede predicated Babalola’s appointment to the high office on his “revolutionary efforts in transforming tertiary education in Nigeria and your keen interest in Artificial Intelligence and other progressive forward-thinking developments in education and the general society.”
In his response, Babalola, thanked the NAAIP leadership for appointing him as its pioneer BoT chairman.
