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Six Nigerians to represent Africa at ICT global contest in China
Six Nigerian students, who came tops ahead of Tanzania, Kenya and Angola, are to represent Africa at the global stage to compete for the information and communications technology (ICT) title in Huawei Technologies’ flagship technology development programme in China this May.
The Nigerian team scores 790.4, followed by Tanzania with 745.6, Kenya with 737 and Angola with 700.8.
The regional finals consisted of 14 teams (with 42 students) from 11 countries in Africa which participated in theory and practical examinations on cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobile networks and big data.
Abdulqadir Musa, Muhammad Maihaja, Fahad Danladi, Shuaibu Usman, Kamaludeen Umar and Abdulqudus Temidayo, all from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), first emerged winners of the Huawei ICT national competition, which involved 13,600 students from 30 universities across Nigeria before proceeding to represent Nigeria at the Sub-Sahara regional finals in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Guardian, Saturday 16, March
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