The ABU Research Policy is a university wide policy and these guidelines should be seen as a framework for sound research practice and for the protection of individual research workers, including both staff and postgraduate research students, from possible misunderstanding.
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Plagiarism is a form of ethical misconduct in research and consists of the intentional or unintentional "use of the words, ideas, diagrams of publicly available work without appropriately acknowledging the sources of these materials."
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Prof. Bala spoke on "Driving Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Using the Teaching and Learning Policy (TPL)".
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
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Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
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Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 23 June 2025
An official ABU conference news page reports a keynote statement that tools like ChatGPT can complete assignments instantly and challenge assessment and originality, but it does not state an ABU rule permitting or prohibiting student AI-tool use.
The ABU Research Policy is a university wide policy and these guidelines should be seen as a framework for sound research practice and for the protection of individual research workers, including both staff and postgraduate research students, from possible misunderstanding.
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Plagiarism is a form of ethical misconduct in research and consists of the intentional or unintentional "use of the words, ideas, diagrams of publicly available work without appropriately acknowledging the sources of these materials."
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Prof. Bala spoke on "Driving Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Using the Teaching and Learning Policy (TPL)".
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
claim-abu-ai-teaching-strategy-context-20260612
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
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Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 23 June 2025
Data collection, management and storage shall be the responsibility of the PI in case of group research. In case of student research (UG and PG), the responsibility of the data safety and retention is that of the student before graduation.
ABU's Research Policy assigns responsibility for research data collection, management, storage, and retention in research projects; the source does not state AI-tool-specific privacy or security rules.
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Research Policy, research data collection/archiving section
Bala stressed that ABU governance, teachers, and other stakeholders must proactively engage in updating the teaching and learning policy to include strategies and guidelines that ensure transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence technologies and tools in the teaching, learning, and research processes.
The crawl found official ABU pages discussing AI strategies and teaching/learning context, but did not find a public official ABU generative-AI use policy, approved/prohibited AI tools list, or AI-tool data/security policy.
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Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
The ABU Research Policy is a university wide policy and these guidelines should be seen as a framework for sound research practice and for the protection of individual research workers, including both staff and postgraduate research students, from possible misunderstanding.
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Plagiarism is a form of ethical misconduct in research and consists of the intentional or unintentional "use of the words, ideas, diagrams of publicly available work without appropriately acknowledging the sources of these materials."
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Data collection, management and storage shall be the responsibility of the PI in case of group research. In case of student research (UG and PG), the responsibility of the data safety and retention is that of the student before graduation.
ABU's Research Policy assigns responsibility for research data collection, management, storage, and retention in research projects; the source does not state AI-tool-specific privacy or security rules.
claim-abu-research-data-handling-context-20260612
Research Policy, research data collection/archiving section
Prof. Bala spoke on "Driving Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Using the Teaching and Learning Policy (TPL)".
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
claim-abu-ai-teaching-strategy-context-20260612
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
claim-abu-ai-teaching-strategy-context-20260612
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 23 June 2025
The ABU Research Policy is a university wide policy and these guidelines should be seen as a framework for sound research practice and for the protection of individual research workers, including both staff and postgraduate research students, from possible misunderstanding.
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Plagiarism is a form of ethical misconduct in research and consists of the intentional or unintentional "use of the words, ideas, diagrams of publicly available work without appropriately acknowledging the sources of these materials."
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
Prof. Bala spoke on "Driving Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Using the Teaching and Learning Policy (TPL)".
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
claim-abu-ai-teaching-strategy-context-20260612
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
Bala stressed that ABU governance, teachers, and other stakeholders must proactively engage in updating the teaching and learning policy to include strategies and guidelines that ensure transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence technologies and tools in the teaching, learning, and research processes.
The crawl found official ABU pages discussing AI strategies and teaching/learning context, but did not find a public official ABU generative-AI use policy, approved/prohibited AI tools list, or AI-tool data/security policy.
claim-abu-ai-policy-source-status-20260612
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
claim-abu-ai-teaching-strategy-context-20260612
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 23 June 2025
No source-backed public claim about AI security review or procurement is present in this profile.
Security and procurementAhmadu Bello University, Zaria
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No reviewed evidence is included for this topic. This does not establish that no rule exists.
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5 reviewed claims
Academic Integrity 1 reviewed claim
Academic Integrity
ABU's Research Policy is described as university-wide for research practice and defines plagiarism as research ethical misconduct; this is adjacent research-integrity context and not AI-specific guidance.
The ABU Research Policy is a university wide policy and these guidelines should be seen as a framework for sound research practice and for the protection of individual research workers, including both staff and postgraduate research students, from possible misunderstanding.
Source language
English (en)
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Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Research Policy, section 1.1 Preamble
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Evidence 2
Plagiarism is a form of ethical misconduct in research and consists of the intentional or unintentional "use of the words, ideas, diagrams of publicly available work without appropriately acknowledging the sources of these materials."
Source language
English (en)
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Retrieved
Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Research Policy, section 2.1.1 Overview
Teaching 1 reviewed claim
Teaching
Official ABU news pages say university leaders discussed updating teaching and learning policy for AI transparency/accountability and later stated that ABU had put strategies in place for use of AI in teaching and learning; the pages do not publish the full strategy or student-use rules.
Prof. Bala spoke on "Driving Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Using the Teaching and Learning Policy (TPL)".
Source language
English (en)
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Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
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Evidence 2
According to him, the university had already put in place strategies for use of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning.
Source language
English (en)
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Jun 12, 2026
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Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 23 June 2025
Privacy 1 reviewed claim
Privacy
ABU's Research Policy assigns responsibility for research data collection, management, storage, and retention in research projects; the source does not state AI-tool-specific privacy or security rules.
Data collection, management and storage shall be the responsibility of the PI in case of group research. In case of student research (UG and PG), the responsibility of the data safety and retention is that of the student before graduation.
Source language
English (en)
Snapshot hash
22a253da…
Retrieved
Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Research Policy, research data collection/archiving section
Source Status 2 reviewed claims
Source Status
An official ABU conference news page reports a keynote statement that tools like ChatGPT can complete assignments instantly and challenge assessment and originality, but it does not state an ABU rule permitting or prohibiting student AI-tool use.
According to him, tools like Chatgpt could complete assignments instantly, challenging notions of assessment and originality.
Source language
English (en)
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494d9a72…
Retrieved
Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 13 May 2025
Source Status
The crawl found official ABU pages discussing AI strategies and teaching/learning context, but did not find a public official ABU generative-AI use policy, approved/prohibited AI tools list, or AI-tool data/security policy.
Bala stressed that ABU governance, teachers, and other stakeholders must proactively engage in updating the teaching and learning policy to include strategies and guidelines that ensure transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence technologies and tools in the teaching, learning, and research processes.
Source language
English (en)
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Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023
Source record
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4 sources
4 official URLs; 4 source attributions and their captured versions retained.
'ABU will continue to support individuals and groups in advancing AI in learning'
abu.edu.ng
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'ABU will continue to support individuals and groups in advancing AI in learning' · 2026-06-12T12:30:00.000Z
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Citation: University AI Policy Tracker. "Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria AI Policy Tracker record." Last checked June 12, 2026. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/ahmadu-bello-university-zaria
Original university source language remains canonical. This tracker is not an official university statement.
Saved from University AI Policy Tracker. This record summarizes the cited sources; it is not an official university statement or assessment permission. Source and review dates are listed above. Hashes identify retained content, not authorization.
Questions students ask
Questions students ask
Can I use AI for my coursework?
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has 3 source-backed public claims for coursework; deterministic analysis status: blocked.
