# National AI Innovation

> ncair.nitda.gov.ng | Compute; 1 record: free tier, limits, identity cost and evidence.

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## National AI Innovation

- `compute/national-ai-innovation` | fails-identity | evidence documented | binding write-gated | category cloud VM
- needs card no, phone no, ID yes, institution no | verified 2026-10-22 (live) | stale on 2026-11-22
- url https://ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/
- 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 | read on: 2026-10-22 | source: [1] | note: competition
- per-object cap: not applicable | source: [1]
- retention: not applicable | source: [1]
- egress: not stated | metered: no | source: [1]
- identity: national-id
- interface: unknown
- limits:
  - write-gated (binding): 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. [1]
- limits note: 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 note: the same as limits note
- interface detail: inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
- tooling: not stated
- 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. 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.
- extras:
  - facets.class: government-competition
  - facets.free_tier_kind: competition
- evidence:
  - [1] 2026-10-22: '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
  - [1] 2026-10-22: benefits list 'Compute credits through partner infrastructure' and 'N-ATLAS co-contributor credit', quoted
  - [1] 2026-10-22: page description reads 'Deadline: 12 October 2026', and the page states 'Applications Open 22 September 2026 | Deadline 12 October 2026', quoted
  - [1] 2026-10-22: 'Diaspora teams must have at least 50% of members based in Nigeria', quoted
- sources:
  - [1] https://ncair.nitda.gov.ng/naic/