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A team of students from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) has won the Huawei ICT Skills Competition Global Finals held in Shenzhen, China. The competition, which took place from May 20 to May 25, saw the ABU team, comprising Hadiza Mohammed, Sufiyan Ibrahim, and Lawal Haruna, emerge victorious for developing an innovative device that detects diseases in crops.
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According to Mohammed Muazu, director of the International Institute of Online Education (IIOE) Nigeria National Centre, the device can detect diseases in various crops, including yam, cassava, rice, and maize. “The innovative device can detect diseases in crops such as yam, cassava, rice, sorghum, beans, tomato, wheat, potato, soybean, and groundnut,” he explained.
The device also analyzes soil health, measuring nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, temperature, moisture, pH, and conductivity. “The tool provides results and recommendations in multiple languages, including English, Pidgin English, Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo (both audio and text), as well as Kiswahili, Afrikaans, French, and Arabic (text only),” Muazu added.
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The device is complemented by a mobile app compatible with Android, iOS, and Harmony OS. ABU’s Vice-Chancellor, Adamu Ahmed, commended the team for their achievement and assured them of the university’s support to commercialize the product. “He praised the innovations’ potential impact and encouraged the students to continue leveraging ABU’s platform for greater success,” according to Auwalu Umar from the university’s public affairs directorate.
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