"The greatest threat right now is Nigeria not having its own AI policy [...]. If Nigeria gets this bill right, many African countries would adapt this view for their context [...]. I would think that Nigeria has a real opportunity in the age of AI to be its own person, its own country, its own nation. The opportunity is there. It starts from our bargaining, though [...] Our strength is numbers. We have huge numbers. We have a young population. We need to revamp our educational sector, make sure we get AI into those classrooms as early as possible. We need to train the smartest AI engineers, and we need to give them incentives to stay back in Nigeria to solve [...]. The moment you train Nigerian young people to be very fast, to understand AI, to train models, to use APIs, to create platforms, to solve problems, then you've won," Professor Ade-Ibijola noted.