Category: Education & Innovation

Jubril Dokun, a 16-year-old student of Brainfield College, Salolo, Lagos State, has emerged winner of the third edition of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Competition held on February 5, 2022.

Contesting with over 18,000 students from various secondary schools in Nigeria, Jubril Dokun won the 13-week educational show (run on both terrestrial and domestic television stations) to clinch the first prize of ₦7.5 million in scholarships, among other prizes.

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Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, Professor Charles Chidume and Professor Godwin Ekhaguere have received the Nigeria National Order of Merit Award for years 2020 and 2021 as announced by the Federal Government of Nigeria on 21 January 2022.

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye was named winner in medicine (2020), Professor Charles Chidume clinched the award in Science (2020), while Professor Godwin Ekhaguere emerged winner in Science (2021).

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Ekeoseye Elizabeth Osereme has emerged as the overall best graduating student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) for the 2019/2020 academic session at the school’s 52nd Convocation held on January 20, 2022.

Ekeoseye Elizabeth Osereme, a graduate of the Department of Zoology (BSc. Environmental Toxicology and Conservation Option) received her first class degree with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.95 (out of 5.0).

ATANRANSHE, Oluwaseyi Gideon emerged as the Best Graduating Student in Humanities (CGPA 4.92).

Dr. UMUDU, Joy Chinyere emerged as the Overall Best Ph.D Thesis (Mathematics [Pure].

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Oluwatuyi Olowoyeye, has graduated from the University of Debrecen in Hungary with a perfect Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.0 in his Masters Program.

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Ganiyu Oboh, a professor of applied biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has emerged Nigeria’s best researcher according to the 2021 Alper-Doger Scientific Index.

From being ranked the number one in food science in Nigeria and number six on the World’s list of Top 2 per cent scientists’ in the ranking released by Stanford University, United States of America, Mr. Oboh also emerged Africa’s best biochemist.

He is currently the head of Functional Food and Nutraceutical Laboratory Unit in the Department of Biochemistry and has recommended a cure to diabetes.

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The National Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria has released its 2021 ranking of universities in Nigeria on December 13, 2021.

The NUC ranking, which was carried out using twelve indicators involved 113 universities across the country.

A former Executive Secretary of NUC and lead presenter, Professor Peter Okebukola, made this known in Abuja, during a capacity building workshop on improving the ranking of public universities in Nigeria, Organised by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).

The rankings of the institutions were based on: Student-Teacher Ratio; Percentage Female; Percentage of Full Professors; Percentage of International Staff; Percentage of International Students; Percentage of Programmes with FULL accreditation; Efficiency; All Citations Per Capita; All h-index Per Capita; All i-10-index Per Capita; Google Scholar Presence; Contribution to Knowledge Economy; and Total score, which is the summation of percentage of international staff, percentage of international students, all citations per capita, h-index per capita, i-10 index per capita and Google Scholar presence.

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24-year-old Tosin Durodola has emerged runner-up of the 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize for 2021.

Durodola set a new record by becoming the first African and postgraduate student from a University in the Global South to make the top two places of the Border Criminologies Masters’ Dissertation/Thesis Prize since the inception of the competition. The past winners and runners-up of the award were from Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Amsterdam Universities.

The award was put together by Routledge and Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology and Border Criminologies to support early career researchers working on citizenship, migration and the intersections between border controls and criminal justice.

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