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Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

RankingQS World University Rankings 2026: 1201-1400UpdatedJun 12, 2026

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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.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence86%

Normalized value: research_policy_plagiarism_misconduct_not_ai_specific

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Original evidence

Evidence 1
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.
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English (en)
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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."
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English (en)
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Evidence locator
Research Policy, section 2.1.1 Overview

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.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence80%

Normalized value: research_data_handling_context_not_ai_tool_specific

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Original evidence

Evidence 1
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)
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Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Research Policy, research data collection/archiving section

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.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence78%

Normalized value: official_ai_teaching_learning_strategy_context_no_full_policy_text

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Original evidence

Evidence 1
Prof. Bala spoke on "Driving Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Using the Teaching and Learning Policy (TPL)".
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English (en)
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Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 12 December 2023

Original evidence

Evidence 2
According to him, the university had already put in place strategies for use of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning.
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English (en)
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Jun 12, 2026
Evidence locator
Article body, ABU Public Affairs Directorate page dated 23 June 2025

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.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence74%

Normalized value: chatgpt_assessment_originality_discussed_no_rule

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Original evidence

Evidence 1
According to him, tools like Chatgpt could complete assignments instantly, challenging notions of assessment and originality.
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English (en)
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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.

Review: Agent reviewedConfidence72%

Normalized value: no_public_ai_specific_policy_found_in_official_search

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Original evidence

Evidence 1
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

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Official sources

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Record information, JSON & citation
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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

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