• Malaysian varsity denies owning satellite campuses in Nigeria
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.