• AI productivity rises as skills gaps, job risks loom, says report 

Federal Government is developing a framework for responsible adoption of AI across governance, healthcare, education, and agriculture sectors, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Abdullahi, has said.

Presenting a paper titled, ‘Agenda for a Digital Global Economy’ at the third Economic Confidential Lecture held in Abuja yesterday, Abdullahi said Nigeria was well placed to benefit maximally from the emerging AI as a platform for economic transformation.

He pointed at Nigeria’s youthful population as its most powerful resource, saying the country must ensure that youths were not just tech consumers, but innovators and creators.

He charged stakeholders in the tech field to turn automation from a job threat into a job creation engine, saying Nigeria’s teeming youth population, with a median age of 17.3 and over 60 per cent of the population under 25, was a huge demographic advantage.

THIS is as a report has declared that Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly embedding itself into the modern workplace, but its adoption remains uneven, raising concerns about widening organisational performance gaps, workforce readiness, and the future of jobs.

This is the central finding of the “AI in the Workplace 2025” report, jointly released by the Digital Education Council and the Global Finance & Technology Network. The study provides a granular examination of how AI is being utilised, where it is falling short, and what its accelerating evolution means for employers and workers.

According to the report, 63 per cent of employers say AI has been either very helpful or game-changing in boosting productivity. More than half (56 per cent) of workforces now use AI daily, primarily for drafting emails, summarising documents, generating content, and brainstorming.

Yet adoption is fragmented: 29 per cent of employers report that only some employees use AI, nine per cent say only a few rely on it, and six per cent are unsure of its real penetration. This uneven landscape, the report warns, risks entrenching a new “productivity divide” defined not by access to AI, but by the ability to use it effectively.