The push for a formal framework comes as artificial intelligence tools such as generative AI, automated essay graders, and chatbots become increasingly common in Nigerian lecture halls and research labs.

Education stakeholders say a well-defined policy is urgently needed to govern how AI is integrated into teaching, research, and administration. Concerns include plagiarism, student data privacy, research ethics, and the risk of academic fraud if AI systems are misused.

Professor Joseph Olanrewaju, an AI governance advocate at the University of Ibadan, noted that Nigerian institutions must act proactively to avoid a crisis of credibility. “It’s only a matter of time before generative AI fundamentally changes how students learn and how faculty assess them,” he said. “If we don’t build clear standards now, we risk harming the reputation of our degrees and our graduates.”

Other experts have recommended that the National Universities Commission (NUC) work with stakeholders to develop guidelines for safe and ethical use of AI, similar to policies already emerging in Europe and North America.

They also urged universities to build staff capacity and digital infrastructure that can responsibly deploy AI tools, while maintaining human oversight and academic rigor.

Nigeria currently has no national AI policy tailored for the education sector, despite the federal government’s broader push to grow the country’s AI capabilities under its National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS).

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TECHDIGEST – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has commenced the process of conducting a study to assess the current level of competition in the colocation and infrastructure sharing (CIS) segment of the Nigerian telecommunications sector.

The telecoms regulator disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen, the study is to enable the regulator to have insightful and evidenced-based facts to glean the dynamics at play and ensure the continuous growth of that segment of the telecoms market.

NCC, said it takes this issue as priority in view of the critical role played by the colocation and infrastructure sharing segment of the telecom ecosystem in ensuring robust services.

The Commission also confirmed that its commission has engaged the services of Messrs. Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), one of the world’s reputable consulting firms, to conduct the study on its behalf, in the exercise of NCC’s regulatory functions as provided in the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA), 2003. The study is expected to be concluded between April and July 2022.

Speaking at the NCC’s stakeholders’ forum recently organised in Lagos on the commencement of the study, the Director, Policy, Competition and Economy Analysis (PCEA) at NCC, Yetunde Akinloye, who represented the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, said the forum was hosted to intimate operators in the CIS segment of the telecom market on the study and to secure their buy-in and cooperation with the consultants undertaking the study.

Akinloye opined that, in line with its mandate of creating an enabling environment for competition among operators in the industry as well as ensuring the provision of qualitative and efficient telecommunications services, the NCC periodically conducts studies to assess the level of competition in the industry.

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