Nigeria, May 8 -- The Nigerian youth have a great opportunity to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to prosper, a leading scientist and engineer has said.

Professor Bart Nnaji, former Minister of Science and Technology and also Minister of Power, told a technology festival in Enugu today dominated by the youth that technology has made it possible for young people to set up lucrative businesses without huge capital.

He cited the example of two young men, aged 21 and 22, who are building drones in Abuja and selling them to Nigerian firms and those in Ghana and Slovakia.

"Their case should tell you that there is nothing you set your mind to achieve that you can't succeed in doing", Nnaji, a former distinguished professor of robotics an...