International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 13(2), pp. 54-68, June 2025

ISSN: 2360-7866

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijarer2025066

 

Full Length Research

 

 

CHATGPT Development & Application to Information Processing & Management in Nigerian Universities

 

Dr. Olubiyo Peter Olubunmi

 

University Library, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Nigeria.

Corresponding author’s E-mail: olubiyopeter@gmail.com Tel.+2348166392038  

Accepted 10 June 2025

Abstract

Abstract: The public release of ChatGPT by Open AI in November 2022 triggered one of the fastest and most significant phenomena of technology adoption in the history of higher education worldwide. ChatGPT is a qualitative discontinuity in the accessibility of artificial intelligence (AI), with advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities directly in the hands of every student, lecturer, and researcher with internet access in only two months, surpassing the adoption curves of Facebook (4.5 years), Twitter (5 years), and Instagram (2.5 years) (Biswas, 2023; Firat, 2 As of the end of 2024, ChatGPT was estimated to have about 100 million weekly users and the ChatGPT site was visited more than 1.6 billion times in December 2023 alone (BrowserCat, 2025). The survey on higher education students worldwide shows that 86 percent of students are currently using AI tools in their education, and ChatGPT is the most used tool among them (Digital Education Council, 2024). The largest of its kind, a comprehensive global survey of 23,218 students in 109 countries and territories found that students mostly use ChatGPT to brainstorm, summarise texts and locate research articles (PMC, 2025). ScienceDirect (2025), who analysed over 20,000 student responses, discovered that over 70 percent of students worldwide use ChatGPT with developing countries (71 percent) closer to those in developed countries (74 percent). ChatGPT has infiltrated the university life in Nigeria at an incredible rate even though the nation has a problem with digital infrastructure. The University of Ibadan, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Federal University Otuke and Federal College Of Education Bida all record high and increasing awareness, positive attitudes and varied utilisation patterns of both students and academics. The fact that the digital economy sector has a contribution to real GDP in Nigeria of 19.78% in Q2 2024 (NBS, 2024) places the country as a market where AI literacy is not a mere academic but an economic necessity. The paper presents a more detailed, theoretically-based and evidence-based analysis of ChatGPT, its architecture, history, information processing and management applications, implementation in Nigerian universities, governance issues, and library-specific implications, which is completed by the final set of recommendations to the NUC, university administrators, library professionals, and individual academics. The article is based on peer-reviewed articles published in 20192025, institutional information, international surveys, and empirical studies unique to Nigeria to present a rigorous examination of the potential to transform and the risks of ChatGPT in one of the most vibrant higher education systems in Africa.

 

Key Words: ChatGPT, Generative AI, Large Language Models, Information Processing, Nigerian Universities, Higher Education, OpenAI, Academic Integrity, Research Development, NLP, Library Services, AI Governance, Information Management.

Paper type: research