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- Free allowance
- 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'.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- national-idno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe 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...
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| 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 |
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| Price | none stated |
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| 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. source
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| Identity | national-id not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| 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. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 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
| facets | {"class": "government-competition","free_tier_kind": "competition","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field