Nigeria's $7.5M Gates-backed NAISH hub showcases five AI projects

The Nigeria AI Scaling Hub (NAISH), backed by up to $7.5 million from the Gates Foundation over three years, presented five organisations building AI for healthcare, agriculture and local languages at Moonshot by TechCabal 2026. Hosted by Lagos Business School, the hub offers compute credits, data pipelines and policy support.

• Gates Foundation committed up to $7.5M over three years
• Showcased mDoc, Extension Africa, Data Science Nigeria, awarri and Masakhane
• Hub is hosted by Lagos Business School with FMCIDE support
• Focus areas: healthcare, agriculture, education and finance