TECHDIGEST – Another young Abusite, Atabor Hamza Adenoyi from Kogi State has made history in the department of electronics and telecommunications engineering at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria when he bagged a first-class degree in style.

With a 4.83/5.00 CGPA, the young Abusite graduated with the best Undergraduate results from the Department since its establishment at ABU Zaria in 2013.

Celebrating his academic feat, Adenoyi appreciated God for achieving the best result in the department and expresses his wishes to undertake his master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He said, “At 17, I left the department of Biological sciences in my 2nd year to pursue a degree in engineering, after setting my mind straight to explore my hidden potentials. It wasn’t easy, to begin with, but the determination to keep going gave me the push I needed in those moments…

“If I were asked to define the entirety of my experience, I would say that I am focused on development, moving from where I am to where I want to be. After making efforts to acquire ICT-related skills (in programming), I was compelled to learn computer networking.

He was part of the contingent of Six students of Ahmadu Bello University who received the Vice Chancellor’s Award in 2021 for outstanding performance at the Huawei Nigeria ICT Competition.

The Competition, which was the fifth in the series, had a participation record of almost 15,000 students from over 2,000 colleges and universities in more than 82 countries and regions globally.

Atabor Hamza Adenoyi led the team the earned first prize in Network Track globally. Others include Emmanuel Abba and Hamza Beita. According to him, Spending time with his team strengthened his passion for learning and gave him more ideas to develop creative ways to teach people.

He expressed appreciation to the head of departmental, Dr. A. D. Usman, his lecturers, family, and friends for supporting him through this journey.

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TECH DIGEST – Three students of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria have  won the global grand prize in the cloud and artificial intelligence of the Huawei ICT competition 2019-2020.

Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Kabir Bala, disclosed this during the 2019/2020 Huawei Nigeria ICT Competition Award and inauguration of the 2021/2022 launch ceremony in Zaria.

Tech Digest gathered that the 2019/2020 Huawei competition had a participation record of almost 150,000 students from over 2,000 colleges and universities in more than 82 countries.

A total of six students represented ABU at the competition.

Three of them, Mustapha Jimoh, Dahir Muhammad-Dahir, and Abdullahi Khalifa Muhammad won the grand prize in cloud and artificial intelligence at the global final.

The three others, Hamza Atabor, Emmanuel Abba, and Hamza Beira, earned first prize in Network Track category globally.

During the inaugural launch, Prof. Bala reiterated that the relationship between ABU and Huawei Technology has been in place since in August 2018.

“The relationship became a reality when Huawei approached the university for a partnership on the Huawei Authorised Information Network Academy (HAINA) and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) initiatives.

“We are pleased with the outcomes recorded so far. Under the ABU-HAINA programme, over 1,000 enrolment and 450 different certification tracks have been recorded,” he said.

Also speaking, Melissa Chen, the Director of Service Delivery, Huawei Technologies Nigeria, said over 22,000 Nigerian students registered in the Huawei ICT Competition for 2019/2020.

Ms Chen, represented by Star Shi, Assistant Director, Service Delivery, said 1,000 of these students competed in the national final in December 2019.

Chen explained that 15 students from ABU Zaria, University of Ibadan, and the University of Port Harcourt represented Nigeria in the regional final.

“The team obtained good result at the regional final, and they were given the privilege to represent their schools and Nigeria in the global final.

“The Huawei ICT competition was established to foster ICT learning in Africa and bridge the gap between theoretical study and practical industry experience, typically comprises a national preliminary contest, regional semi-final and a global final”, she added.

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