Anunobi Urges Students To Use AI Responsibly

Awardee of the Network of Book Clubs and Reading Culture Promoters (NBRP) 2025 Champion of Reading Award, Professor Chinwe Anunobi, has urged students not to let Artificial Intelligence (AI) to diminish their intelligence capacity.

Instead, she challenged them to emergence supra passive depletion and go progressive producers of cognition that volition usher and enrich AI.

Anunobi who is the CEO of the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) stated this astatine the 2025 NBRP Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) which held successful Abuja.

Addressing the students who participated successful the NBRP Conference and Poetry Reading Competition, Anunobi urged them not to beryllium babelike connected AI nor addicted to physics gadgets and their accompanying distractions.

“You are astatine that property erstwhile your brains are similar computers that tin sorb immense amounts of knowledge. So, capable it with the indispensable cognition present earlier you are older, erstwhile your encephalon is bare and tin nary longer bash so.

“If you are ever babelike connected A.I your captious reasoning and penning skills volition die. A.I does not manufacture knowledge; rather, it collates cognition inputted into it. Why not go a shaper of cognition the cognition inputted into AI?

“If your parents are perpetually connected their smartphones and societal media, bash not articulation them. Pick up your books and read,” she said.

Meanwhile, the students of Model Secondary School, Maitama, emerged winners of the NBRP Poetry Reading Competition 2025. They were followed by Junior Secondary School, Apo, successful 2nd presumption and Junior Secondary School, Tunga Kwasou, successful 3rd place; portion Chiemezie of Model Girls Junior Secondary School won the Best Overall Performance.

Winners were selected based connected the aggregate scores of the students’ presumption and mentation of the poems, the poem’s content, and the wide interaction of their performance.

Model Secondary School, Maitama, won for their harmonized transportation of their selected poem. While different schools had their students execute antithetic poems each, Model Secondary School students presented a azygous prime poem, dividing the stanzas among the 4 of them, with 1 idiosyncratic introducing and taking the archetypal stanza, and each coming unneurotic to render the past 2 lines of the piece.

In his ballot of thanks, NBRP Abuja Chapter Chairman, Chief Loye Olowokere, urged the children to beryllium funny and captious readers.

“Your enactment is nary longer successful the future. It starts now. So, proceed to work and inquire questions arsenic you read, due to the fact that asking questions enhances your understanding. We commend each NBRP members and the Nigerian nationalist contiguous astatine the league today. We privation to instrumentality NBRP higher,” helium said.

Themed “Reading: A Unifying Factor,” the league and AGM, though yearly events of the NBRP, signifier portion of its Book City project, of which Abuja is the publication metropolis for the twelvemonth 2025.