National AI Innovation

ncair.nitda.gov.ng · Compute · 1 record · JSON

National AI Innovation Compute

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ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/ · cloud VM · compute/national-ai-innovation · JSON · compare

Free tier	A build-only challenge on N-ATLAS, Nigeria's open-source multilingual model (Llama-3 8B fine-tuned for Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian-accented English), whose listed benefits include 'Compute credits through partner infrastructure' and an 'N-ATLAS co-contributor credit'. No cash or GPU-hour amount is published on the page read. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; competition
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	national-id not published
Limits	write-gated The general requirement reads 'All team members must be Nigerian citizens or registered Nigerian entities', and the Innovation & Enterprise track adds 'Individual applicants must be Nigerian citizens aged 18 or above', so citizenship is checked before any compute is discussed. source The general requirement reads 'All team members must be Nigerian citizens or registered Nigerian entities', and the Innovation & Enterprise track adds 'Individual applicants must be Nigerian citizens aged 18 or above', so citizenship is checked before any compute is discussed.
Binding	write-gated The general requirement reads 'All team members must be Nigerian citizens or registered Nigerian entities', and the Innovation & Enterprise track adds 'Individual applicants must be Nigerian citizens aged 18 or above', so citizenship is checked before any compute is discussed.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The compute benefit is a credit on partner infrastructure, and the partner named elsewhere in the same programme family is Galaxy Backbone, which means the credit is only useful inside Nigeria's national data centre network rather than on a commercial cloud the client already uses.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Two things are unsettled and both matter. First, the amount: the page names compute credits without a quantity, so the finding carries a null rather than an estimate. Second, the deadline of 12 October 2026 had passed ten days before this read, and no successor round is published. Three readings were considered. (a) The challenge is annual and a 2027 cycle will open: plausible, since the 2026 edition followed NAISH's June 2026 launch, but no pattern is stated. (b) The compute credit is the main prize: unlikely, the same page lists an N-ATLAS co-contributor credit and the structure reads as a talent and adoption programme. (c) The citizenship test is waivable for a strong applicant: refuted, it is listed under General Requirements applying to every track. The 50 percent in-Nigeria rule for diaspora teams is the only clause that contemplates non-resident members, and it still requires a Nigerian majority.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/	'All team members must be Nigerian citizens or registered Nigerian entities'; 'Individual applicants must be Nigerian citizens aged 18 or above'; 'Company applicants must be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission', quoted
2026-10-22	ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/	benefits list 'Compute credits through partner infrastructure' and 'N-ATLAS co-contributor credit', quoted
2026-10-22	ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/	page description reads 'Deadline: 12 October 2026', and the page states 'Applications Open 22 September 2026 \| Deadline 12 October 2026', quoted
2026-10-22	ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/	'Diaspora teams must have at least 50% of members based in Nigeria', quoted

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated