Gabriel Okara was one of the greatest Nigerian poets, read widely even during the precolonial days. Born in 1921 at Bumoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria,
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Dr. Abba A. Abba
Dr Abba A. Abba is a scholar, academic and a creative writer. A Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Dr Abba won the Nigeria Prize for Literary criticism in 2019.
Prof Isidore Diala
Prof Isidore Diala is a lecturer in African Literature at Imo State University, Owerri. He was an Alexander Humboldt research fellow at Germany.
Dr Mathew Aneke
Dr. Mathew Aneke is a Chemical and Biological Engineer with the University of Sheffield. He is a fellow of UK Higher Education Academy and Chartered Engineer with the UK Energy Institute.
Prof Meihong Wang
Prof Meihong Wang is a Professor of Energy system and lectures at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK.
Dr Peter Ngene
Dr Peter Ngene is Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at the Debye Institute of Nanomaterials Science at the Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Prof Ikeoluwa Ajayi
Prof Ikeoluwa Ajayi is a lecturer at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He was one of the three authors whose work joined other two works to clinched the Science prize after seven years that the prize returned no winner verdict.
Prof Ayodele Jegede
Prof Ayodele Jegede, one of the co-researchers in the 2017 winning project “Improving Home and Community Management of Malaria: Providing the Evidence Base” is the Head of Department of Sociology at the same University of Ibadan.
Dr. Bidemi Yusuf
Bidemi Yusuf, together with Ayodele Jegede and Ikeoluwa Ajayi authored one of the winning entries for the prize in, 2017, entitled: “Improving Home and Community Management of Malaria: Providing the Evidence Base”.
Prof Olugbenga Mukuola
Olugbenga Mukuola’s work “Multi-faceted Effort at Malaria Control in E Research: Management of Malaria of Various Grades” was one of the entries that won The Nigeria Prize for Science in 2017.