Abstract
This paper examines the benefits and challenges of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to university education in Nigeria. It focused on practical implications for educators, students, researchers, and policymaker within the Nigerian educational system. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generative and analytical tools in university a transformative teaching, learning, and research. These AI tools offer numerous prospects, including personalised learning, intelligent tutoring systems, automated assessment, data-driven curriculum development, and forecasting through analytics. These technologies are revolutionising how students acquire academic skills, develop innovative mindsets, and respond to dynamic market environments. The paper is a review of literature published between 2020 and 2025 that critically examines current tools such as chatbots, machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, and generative AI platforms, evaluating their effectiveness in university education. The paper highlighted both successful applications and the barriers to widespread adoption. However, significant challenges persist. These include ethical concerns, data privacy issues, poor funding as reflected in low and inadequate power supply and digital infrastructure, The paper concluded with recommendations for integrating AI literacy among faculty members, providing infrastructures for digital devices and power supply, ensuring AI literacy and use among students, and fostering further research on AI among scholars in universities.
Keywords: Prospects, Challenges, Artificial Intelligence, University Education, Entrepreneurship Education