Students of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, have won two grand prizes at the 10th Huawei ICT Skills Competition Global Fin...
Students of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, have won two grand prizes at the 10th Huawei ICT Skills Competition Global Finals.
The global finals were held in Shenzhen, China, from June 2 to 5, 2026.
The competition featured tracks in networking, cloud computing, computing, and AI/Innovation, with a total of 177 teams from 40 countries participating.
At the award ceremony held in Shenzhen on June 5, 2026, the ABU students secured two grand prizes: first place in the Cloud track and second place in the Computing track.
In addition, three members of Team ABU 2026 received the prestigious Women in Tech Award alongside the Nigeria Network Team.
The competition commenced in October 2025 and attracted more than 220,000 students worldwide.
Following rigorous national finals held in December 2025 and the Southern Africa regional finals in March 2026, the students qualified for the global finals.
The Network, Cloud and Computing track finals involved an intensive eight-hour laboratory-based scenario in which participants were required to solve real-world technology challenges. The event took place on June 2, 2026.
The AI/Innovation finals were held on June 3, 2026. Widely regarded as the competition's highlight, the contest required participants to design and develop AI-based solutions using Huawei technologies.
One of the major highlights of the competition was the grand prize won by Team ABU 2026 in the AI/Innovation category with its project, ParaVision.
ParaVision is an AI-powered diagnostic solution built on the Orange Pi AIPro platform and driven by the Huawei Ascend 310B4 chip.
The system can conduct multiple diagnostic tests either simultaneously or independently and generate printed laboratory reports in less than three minutes. It also features a multilingual interface supporting languages such as French, Arabic, Chinese and Swahili.
The students who represented the university were Kumba-Banna Tekanyi (Computer Engineering), Yakubu Musa Yakubu (Computer Science), Adekunle Abdulroqeeb Oladimeji (Electrical Engineering), and Wakili Sefiu Bolaji (Computer Engineering).
Others were Yunus Muhammad (Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering), Ruqayyah Hassan Labo (Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering), Khadija Khalid (Computer Engineering), and Grace Temitayo Olorunfemi (Computer Engineering).
The students excelled at the global finals under the guidance of two technical instructors: Dr. Bashir Halliru Sani of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and ICT (IAIICT), and Dr. Zaharaddeen Haruna of the Department of Computer Engineering.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adamu Ahmed, attended the event alongside the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Prof. Raymond B. Bako.
Other university officials present at the event included the Director of the Distance Learning Centre, Prof. Muhammed Bashir Mu'azu, and the Director of IAIICT, Prof. Emmanuel Adewale Adedokun.
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