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Five Nigerian Universities get EU grants to start Masters Programme in AI

Five Universities across Nigeria, out of the eight universities across the World, have been selected to get the European Union (EU) Grant to start a Master’s Degree program in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This was revealed in a statement issued by the Director of Information and Public Relations, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Zailani Bappa.

The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi; the University of Portharcourt; the University of Abuja; Obafemi Awolowo University and the Michael Okpara University, Umudike are the benefitting universities in Nigeria.

The statement read in part: “Approval for the Grant was given by the EU Culture executive agency to establish an international Msc Programme in embedded Artificial Intelligence as part of its vision for human capacity development in Higher Institutions.

“The EU Erasmus is aimed at integrating artificial capabilities into the embedded system to enhance the skill set for modeling, design, and analysis for Engineers.

“It has the capability to strengthen the Nigerian Higher Education training curriculum with state-of-the-art, European standard technology. The program will last for 36 months.”

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