Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, says the Federal Government plans to establish an agency that would be in charge of artificial intelligence and robotics.

He made this disclosure on Monday in Abuja when officials of the Nigeria Science Academy (NSA) visited him in his office.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a general term that implies the use of a computer to model, including robotics, natural language processing (NLP), computer vision and it is sometimes called machine intelligence.

Onu disclosed that for a very long time his ministry has been working to establish the agency, and it has passed through a lot of processes.

According to him, the ministry is close to achieving its aim and when it is fully achieved it would be made public to Nigerians.




“We are very committed to ensure that we have at least one research institute, centre or Agency that will concentrate on artificial intelligence and robotics,” he said.

Onu said this has become imperative because with the establishment of artificial intelligence the level and quality of research, universities, and industrial laboratories in the country would increase and could compete favourable with international standard.

He expressed the hope that the private sector would show interest and at the end it would be commercialised, saying that positive ideas could be translated to products and services available in the market place.




According to Onu, it will also help create jobs, grow the economy and boost the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.

“The institute once established would be useful and Academy of Engineers that would work closely with the ministry to attain maturity.

Onu appreciated the academy’s effort to hold a workshop on Big Data and artificial intelligence.

He said the Ministry had partner with Women in Science group, saying that they need to go to the rural schools to encourage the girl child to be interested in reading Science related courses.

The minister, however, urged the president of the Academy to work with relevant stakeholders for country to attain level of greatness.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/fg-to-establish-agency-for-artificial-intelligence-robotics-onu/amp/

we already have one in also Rock

Lol this one mad oh

Nairaland don’t always delete someone’s link this is the source rubbish

https://pulzenaija.com/news/nigerian-govt-announces-plans-to-build-robots/

Abfinest007:
we already have one in also Rock

What's the name of the movie? it must be comedy

Hahahahahahahha... .. Dis ones are clowns...

Hmmmmmmm!

I did not say anything ooo...

Idiots.


Na kerosene una go use power the Robot abi na
"Oju ti NEPA".

Idiots!!

Abfinest007:
we already have one in also Rock

Two actually

According to him, the ministry is close to achieving its aim and when it is fully achieved it would be made public to Nigerians.

We are very committed to ensure that we have at least one research institute, centre or Agency that will concentrate on artificial intelligence and robotics,” he said.

Slow and slowly we will get to a New and better Nigeria.
Nigeria will be great again in our lifetime.

He expressed the hope that the private sector would show interest and at the end it would be commercialised, saying that positive ideas could be translated to products and services available in the market place

This can only come to fruition when the private sectors take charge of it.
We have many computer gurus and IT guys scattered all over the world doing wonders.
Most will be happy to come home and do this for their father's land.

God bless Nigeria.

Waste of money... Just an avenue to loot more public funds.

Nigeria that cannot boast of 24 hr electricity is investing in Artificial intelligence..

haha..only stupid people will believe this is a real agency.

Their first research should be Abt replacing the dead brain of that walking dead in aso rock..

It's a welcome initiative. A lot of young people in computing and IT will find the center useful for their current endeavours.

Naija don cast..

If this is true and they're serious about it...it's high time I took Machine Learning serious o, ebe lyk sey na there money dey now...Lol

He expressed the hope that the private sector would show interest and at the end it would be commercialised, saying that positive ideas could be translated to products and services available in the market place.

This can only come to fruition when the private sectors take charge of it.

God bless Nigeria.

why e be say we are always at the back at all times?. We want to start when other countries don move....Abeg talk the real thing and stop all this nonsense

Abfinest007:
we already have one in also Rock

You No go die Young

This one just wants to confuse himself. You want to go from pencil production to artificial intelligence and robotics!

Do we even have graduates in these disciplines? Who wants to staff these agencies? The current t crop of civil servants who only know how to write memos and travel on official tour?

Abeg let us hear word

Fund universities . Don't go and establish another useless civil service department . What kind of people are these ?

we are still using yahoo and gmail for government official email address and this one is talking of robotics

This people are very funny, u keeps hearing to, will are going to, would do are starting when will they stop chasing shadows.

Abfinest007:
we already have one in also Rock

Which one be that? Name it..

Misplaced priority.

vickyhow:
Laslasticlala,seun.
This Topic needs to reach FP !


If This Pathetic News is real

To what use is the Robot?
So we can Manufacture robots but we can't produce Toothpicks


In Chinua Achebe's words;

'There was a Country'

just want to create jobs for abokis in Abuja.

Useless government

Onu needs to develop a lie detector machine for him and APC Govt. Hahaha. Ordinary scanner for APAPA No dey work, talk more robocop.