By Victor Duru posted by N. John Chkwuebuka, (a.k.a Brain)
Three scholars from Nigeria have done the country proud as they outshone many others in a global artificial intelligence (AI) contest – The Nigerian undergraduates defeated 150,000 contestants from over 80 countries in a keen competition – Nigeria was represented at the global contest by 15 students drawn from three universities namely: Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State; University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and University of Ibadan, (UI), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
Three Nigerian students have been crowned champions of the global cloud and artificial intelligence contest organized by Huawei Technologies. The three students who are from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria defeated 150,000 students from 82 countries and 2000 universities.
This was confirmed by the Vice-Chancellor of the university during the 2019/2020 Huawei Nigeria ICT Competition Award and inauguration of the 2021/2022 launch ceremony in Zaria on Wednesday, May 26, according to Peoples Gazette.
Fifteen (15) Nigerian students from Ahamdu Bello University, University of Port Harcourt and the University of Ibadan participated at the regional finals. Their good showing qualified them to go onto the global finals. At the global finals, the trio of Hamza Atabor, Emmanuel Abba, and Hamza Beira from ABU Zaria earned first prize in Network Track Globally. Another trio of Nigerian students, namely Mustapha Jimoh, Dahir Muhammad-Dahir, and Abdullahi Khalifa Muhammad then went on to win the grand prize in Cloud and Artificial Intelligence at the global final.
A previously reported that a 15-year-old Nigerian student won big as she defeated US, UK and Chinese pupils in a global mathematics competition. Ms Faith, an SS3 student from Ijebu in Ogun state shared her experience winning the global competition in an interview with The Punch. She told the newspaper that winning the “tough competition” made her happy and honoured. Faith narrated how she excelled in different stages of the contest to emerge winner.
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