From right: Vice Chancellor of Cosmopolitan University, Prof. Carl Adams and Registrar, Dr Mani Ibrahim
..Kicks Academic Operations, Sept
A privately owned tertiary institution, recently licensed by the National Universities Commission (NUC), Cosmopolitan University is set to unveil a full fledged Artificial Intelligence (AI) academic programme in Nigeria, to expose undergraduates to the contemporary trend.
Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Carl Adams, who revealed this, said AI would be deployed to take students on business courses, sciences, researches, aligning them with the global emerging trend in AI.
He said the doors of the university will be flung open for academic activities in September this year, drawing part of its resources from Pittsburgh university.
The institution located in the heart of Abuja, the nation’s capital, intends to run about 16 programmes, cutting across three faculties.
Prof. Adams revealed while addressing journalists and prospective students at its Open House ceremony in Abuja on Friday.
According to Adams, the focus of the university would be embedded in entrepreneurship and innovation skills that would encourage partnerships between businesses, professional bodies, innovators and other academic organisations.
He said students would be trained to be thought leaders, proffering solutions to everyday challenges in the business world and other human endeavours.
”We want this university to be the best place for students, everything we will be doing here would be top quality learning activity that would be reckoned with any where any time.
”In education, we want to gain international footprint, international expertise, looking at the best in the world. So the idea is that why send somebody to London, Berlin or New York to get an international good quality experience, when we can have it here.
”We want to keep our students here to develop them. We want our students to be the thought leaders, not just in Nigeria but at the world.
”We are making our students at the forefront of technological thinking not as just looking at technology but engage with them so they are able to understand, analyse, evaluate the technology and apply it to real world problems,” he said.
The pioneer VC also stated that the academics would be sourced both locally and internationally.
”We are bringing in staff who are again at a variety of levels. We want motivated staff, good staff that can really take forward that learning experience for the students.
”We want staff with expertise and very knowledgeable in their professional areas. Those pushing the boundaries with research, professional practice, so we give them space to develop,” he stressed.
Corroborating the VC, Registrar of the University, Dr Mani Ibrahim, assured students of their safety through proper surveillance systems around the school.
Ibrahim said this was to check and monitor students activities so as to curb moral decadence in the society.
”We are in the process of developing our drug policy which will allow every student coming into the university to go through drug screening.
”We are going to work with parents and the community to carry out this so that we can ensure a free drug society,” he said.
He, therefore, added that the university would be the most affordable with price below some secondary school fees.
Recall that the university which is 100 per cent Nigerian, is owned by Prof. Ibrahim Katampe, founder, Iyatech Laboratories, USA, an innovative Research and Development company with focus on the development and commercialisation of eco-chemical technologies.
The programmes to be run by the university includes: Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Entrepreneurship, International Relations and Criminology and Security Studies.
Others are Health Information Systems, Nursing Science, Public Health, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems and Software Engineering.
In the list of the programmes are also Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering.
