ABU, UI, UNIPORT students qualify for Huawei global ICT competition
Twelve Nigerian students have qualified for the Huawei global ICT competition following their performance in the just concluded subSahara Africa Cloud and Network Examination on cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobile networks and big data.
The students are from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, the University of Ibadan and the University of Port Harcourt.
The examination featured 123 student-talents from 13 countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa, divided into 41 teams (28 network track and 13 cloud track teams).
At the Sub-Saharan regional finals, the students competed for 18 Prizes and 12 admission tickets for the Huawei Global ICT Competition Final in October 2020, which will attract more than 300 other student-talents from 66 countries across the globe.
A statement yesterday from Huawei said the Nigerian students participated from the Huawei Technologies Nigeria offices in Abuja and Lagos.
Mr. Weilei, one
Huawei Channel of the Training
Managers (for ICT Talent Ecosystem Development in Nigeria), said: “the Huawei ICT competition was first launched in Nigeria in 2017 and currently runs under the Huawei ICT Academy which is in collaboration with more than 90 Nigerian universities.”
Ms Melissa Chen, Director, Huawei Nigeria Enterprise D&S Department, said: “The competition-related training has helped over 300 students receive job offers. In Nigeria alone, over 3,000 Nigerian students trained by Huawei have successfully passed the Huawei professional certification exams.”