AI & Intelligence Educator

Making AI literacy a standard across Africa.

I design AI curricula, lead programmes and train educators, students and teams to use AI with clarity, judgement and responsibility. Fifteen years of education and leadership, now pointed at the AI era.

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  • 15+years in education, leadership and skills development
  • 1,000+educators, students and professionals trained on AI
  • 150+issues of the Kini AI Update newsletter
  • Top 1,000of ~50,000 applicants, Perplexity AI Business Fellow

About

Intelligence is more than the tools.

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I'm an AI and intelligence educator, curriculum designer and programme leader. My work sits across artificial, human and business intelligence: how AI works, how people think and learn alongside it, and how organisations adopt it well.

I co-founded Kini AI, where I lead initiatives that make AI literacy accessible across African institutions and enterprises. I'm a Google Certified Educator, a Perplexity AI Business Fellow and Chapter Director (Nigeria) of The AI Fellowship.

My approach is practical and non-technical first: clear frameworks, hands-on labs and materials that local trainers can reuse.

Selected work

Programmes built to scale.

National initiative

Project 1 Million

A national AI education initiative for safe, ethical and meaningful AI adoption among educators, students, SMEs, women and people with special needs in Nigeria, with a goal of one million people by 2030 or sooner.

Covered by The Guardian Nigeria.

Summit

AI for Africa's Education Summit

I pioneered and organised AAES Lagos 2026, bringing educators, administrators, students, EdTech stakeholders and policymakers together on teaching and learning responsibly in the AI era. Programming covered pedagogy and new assessment methods, AI policy and safety, and hands-on workshops.

Government partnership

Lagos State Education pilot

Secured a partnership with Lagos State Government Education District 4 to train teachers, students and school administrators on AI for teaching and learning. It is the education-focused starting point for Project 1 Million.

Teaching and training

Hands-on, jargon-free, repeatable.

15+ workshops delivered in six months. Facilitator guides, learning pathways and reusable curriculum so other trainers can run the programme locally.

  • Beginners' Guide to AI

    A first, confident step into practical AI.

  • Master Prompt Engineering in Simple Terms

    Getting reliable results from generative AI.

  • AI for Academic & Market Research

    Research workflows for students and professionals.

  • NotebookLM Masterclass

    Learning and knowledge work with Google's NotebookLM.

  • Perplexity AI Masterclass

    AI-assisted search and research, from a Perplexity Fellow.

Programmes for

  • Teachers and pre-service teachers
  • School administrators
  • Students and national youth camps
  • Executives and bespoke corporate teams
  • SMEs and community groups

AI adoption for organisations

From needs assessment to a team that uses it.

  1. AssessNeeds assessment and use-case mapping.
  2. PilotAn intro workshop, hands-on labs and trainer-of-trainers.
  3. EvaluateClear metrics to see what changed.

Organisations I've worked with

  • TechCabalMedia and tech
  • Landmark AfricaReal estate
  • Dubas PharmacyHealthcare
  • Main-MatE-commerce
  • Ade BantuEntertainment
  • GKTMPublishing and training
  • GrowthHubProfessional services
  • ECO Freak MovementAdvocacy

Products and tools

Things I've built to make AI easier to learn.

Kini AI Update

A newsletter on AI adoption, tool reviews and learning for educators, EdTech practitioners and policymakers. 150+ issues.

AI Pathfinder

A learning guide that maps your self-assessment to curated resources and starter tools, beginner to advanced.

Bamise AI Agent

A workflow builder that recommends the top five AI tools and step-by-step workflows for a task. Piloted with 100+ trainees.

Muyiwa AI Voice Agent

A voice-first assistant for on-demand help, also deployed as website support.

Writing and talks

Research-grounded, human-centred.

The Illusions of AI series looks at what AI does to learning and to human connection.

  • The Illusion of Learning

    Research-grounded analysis of AI and learning, drawing on MIT work and contemporary research into AI-assisted cognition.

  • The Illusion of Connection

    The second instalment, on the social impact of AI and the risk of replacing real human connection with AI.

  • The AI That Finally Came Full Circle for Learning

    A perspective on NotebookLM's Video Overview and what multimodal learning means for education.

  • The 2026 AI Governance Playbook

    A video conversation with Olabimpe Afolabi, Partner at KPMG Nigeria.

Recognition and credentials

Recognised, certified, in the press.

Recognition

  • Perplexity AI Business Fellow, global top 1,000 of ~50,000 applicants (2025)
  • Kini AI named a top AI company in InnovateAI 2026 by AI in Nigeria
  • Excellence Service Award, ESAN (2025)
  • AI in Nigeria volunteer (2024, 2026)
  • Chapter Director (Nigeria), The AI Fellowship

In the press

  • The Guardian Nigeria
  • The Nation
  • TechCabal
  • Globe Newsprint
  • The Mirror NG
  • The Conscience NG

Selected certifications

  • AI and Digital Transformation in Government, University of Oxford Saïd Business School with UNESCO (2026)
  • Policy Implications of AI in Africa, Smart Africa Digital Academy (2026)
  • Artificial Intelligence for Educators, 1 Million Teachers (2026)
  • Future of AI, BlueDot Impact (2026)
  • Google Certified Educator (2025)
  • Generative AI for Leaders, Vanderbilt University (2024)

Education: B.Sc. Business Education, University of Lagos (2014). Registered Teacher, TRCN.

Contact

Let's make AI make sense for your people.

Workshops, curriculum design, speaking, partnerships or AI adoption for your organisation.