Category: Education & Innovation

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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Kwara State has emerged as the winner of the 61st Independence anniversary President’s national Inter-basic school debate championship held in Lagos State.

Kwara and Katsina states competed for the first and second positions, while Imo and Lagos states competed for the third and fourth positions.

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13-year-old Tanvita Koushik has emerged winner of the inaugural edition of the Nigeria Info “I Beg To Differ” student debate competition.

The debate competition, which commenced in November 2021, featured hundreds of secondary school students across Lagos State between the ages of 13 to 17 years.

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Ohanekwu Favor Ebuka has emerged as the overall best graduating student at Obafemi Awolowo University for the 2018/2019 academic session at the school’s 45th Convocation held on December 10, 2021.

Ohanekwu Favor Ebuka, a graduate of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, received his first class degree with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.88 (out of 5.0) and got nine prizes.

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Lagos Business School (LBS) has been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 certificate, an international standard measurement for Quality Management Systems (QMS).

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Nigeria’s foremost agency responsible for developing, implementing technical standards and certification of products for quality management systems in Nigeria, has awarded Lagos Business School (LBS), a leading graduate business school in Africa, the ISO 9001:2015 certificate.

The milestone certification for Lagos Business School conveys it the first educational institution in Nigeria to be awarded the coveted global standard QMS certification.

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