*As Irebia speaks on importance of Artificial intelligence.
Okworide Simeon
The chairman of the Global Mindset Media Ltd, Amb. Godday Odidi has called on president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to provide quality leadership and fight corruption while creating enabling environment for businesses to thrive.
Amb. Odidi stated this recently, during the Global Mindset Media awards ceremony held on the 9th November 2025, at GTA Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos-Nigeria.
In his opening remark, Amb. Odidi had noted that, at the moment the world is focusing on Artificial Intelligence, stressing that, the world is currently developing very fast with "technological tools" as Rwanda has taken the lead in Africa.
Amb. Odidi used the medium to appeal to president Tinubu to provide quality leadership that create enabling environment for businesses to thrive, while encouraging "SKILLS" development to enhance human capacity development and ensuring that "CORRUPTION" in all sectors of the economy must be discouraged through policies that has human face, instead of celebrating it.
He noted that Artificial Intelligence is currently replacing humans while synthetic intelligence is making humans to function productively.
The chairman of the occasion, Hon. Stephen Ighomena Irebia, FCA, who presented a paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) described the day topic "AI" as timely and compelling as a lot of people are anxious to know what AI is all about.
Hon. Irebia defined Artificial Intelligence as the Science of creating machines and systems that can perform tasks that typically required human intelligence. These intelligences include, learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception and even decision-making, stressing that, in essence, AI, is the ability of a computer system to "think and act" intelligently, drawing from data, from experience and advanced algorithms to provide solutions.
While explaining further, Hon. Irebia noted that AI is not just about technology, but, it is about solutions, stressing that, in a world grappling with Global challenges such as poverty, climate change, health care inequalities, food security and insecurity, stressing that, currently, AI provides a new lens through which people can re-imagine possibilities.
Mr Jusber Shu, a Chinese, who currently serves as the General Manager of Tridem Pharma Nigeria Ltd, the Nigerian subsidiary of the global healthcare group Fosun Pharma, also emphasize the usefulness of the Artificial Intelligence across board as it carried out functions meant for humans.
One thing that was established among discussants while enumerating the merits and demerits of the Artificial Intelligence was that the "Natural Intelligence is superior as artificial intelligence comes from the Natural Intelligence.
Some of the awardees include Sir Ayodele Oghogho Othihiwa, Amb. Dr president Fajumo Adejide Emmanuel, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Bambado, Mrs Stella Okhaishie, Dr Onuoha Emerem, Hon. Musa Yahya Muhammad, Kelvin Great, Okhai Okhai and host of others.
