{"id":18773,"date":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/education-consultant-urges-youths-to-embrace-ai-literacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","slug":"education-consultant-urges-youths-to-embrace-ai-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/education-consultant-urges-youths-to-embrace-ai-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Consultant Urges Youths to Embrace AI Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education Consultant Urges Youths to Embrace AI Literacy, <!-- no image -->,  <\/p>\n<div class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<p>Oluchi Chibuzor<\/p>\n<p>As AI continuously disrupts modern education, Nigerian youths have been urged to embrace new technical skills to align with modern technological innovation.<br \/>Speaking at its second career fair, the MD of Fastrack Academy, Dr Oladapo Akinloye, an educational consultant, said that Nigerian youths must embrace AI skills quickly, as it will displace repetitive jobs while creating new roles.<br \/>\u201cHow can we improve productivity? Because the operating environment, what\u2019s called capital, is not enough. So everybody\u2019s looking at how we can do more with less of what is available. So artificial intelligence is coming into that space to remove all those repetitive jobs.<br \/>\u201cThat is why we organised this. Nigerian education must position our youths for the opportunities. There will be new jobs created by the displaced ones. There will be new opportunities,\u201d Akinloye stated.<br \/>The COO, Praxis MCE, Oghara Adebusuyi, said that Nigerian youths need to upskill to remain relevant in society.<br \/>\u201cSo the youths need to equip themselves with new skills, upgrade themselves with new skills, so that they can be relevant in whatever profession they find themselves in. Otherwise, the education they get in the school will not be sufficient for them to compete favourably and add value in this current world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>, Education \u2013 THISDAYLIVE, May 13, 2026, 8:50 am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Consultant Urges Youths to Embrace AI Literacy, , Oluchi Chibuzor As AI continuously disrupts modern education, Nigerian youths have been urged to embrace new technical skills to align with modern technological innovation.Speaking at its second career fair, the MD of Fastrack Academy, Dr Oladapo Akinloye, an educational consultant, said that Nigerian youths must embrace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1937,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-education","category-education","category-school-matters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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