Abubakar Tafawa Balewa varsity, Bauchi selected by EU for grant to start Master degree in Artificial Intelligence

By Akanji Alowoludo, Bauchi

The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi has been selected by the European Union as one of the eight universities across the world for a Grant to start a Masters Degree programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Five of the universities are located in Nigeria while the other three are in Europe. They are the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, the University of Port Harcourt, the University of Abuja, the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife and the Michael Okpara University, Umudike.

Aprroval for the Grant was given by the EU culture executive agency to establish 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 embedded system to enhance skill set for modelling, design and analysis for Engineers. 

It has the capability to strengthen the Nigerian Higher Education training curricular with state-of-the-art, European standard technology. The programme will last for 36 months as contained in a statement by Zailani Bappa, Director, Information and Public Relations.