Past Winners
Past Winners
The Nigeria Prize for Science
Winners at the Glance
|
Year
|
Winning Entry
|
Scientist
|
Profile
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gains in Grain Yield of Released Maize (Zea Mays L.) Cultivars under Drought and Well-Watered Conditions
Development of Process Plant for Plantain Flour | Muhydideen Oyekunle and Shehu Ado
Sesan Peter Ayodeji and Emmanuel Olatunji Olatomilola |
|
| 2021 | No Winner | No Winner | |
| 2019 | Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Biomass Gasification and Energy Storage for Power Generation | Professor Meihong Wang and Dr. Mathew Aneke | |
| 2018 | Nanostructured Metal Hydrides for the Storage of Electrical Power from Renewable Energy Sources and for Explosion Prevention in High Voltage Power Transformers | Peter Ngene | |
| 2017 | Improving Home and Community Management of Malaria: Providing the Evidence Base
Multifaceted Efforts at Malaria Control in Research: Management of Malaria of Various Grades and Mapping Artemisinin Resistance Novel lipid microparticles for effective delivery of Artemether antimalarial drug using a locally-sourced Irvingia fat from nuts of Irvingia gabonensis var excelsa (ogbono). | Ikeoluwapo Ajayi, Ayodele Jegede & Bidemi Yusuf
Olugbenga Mokuolu Chukwuma Agubata | |
| 2016 | No WInner | Extended to 2017 | |
| 2015 | No Competition | No Competition | |
| 2014 | No Competition | No Competition | |
| 2013 | No Competition | No Competition | |
| 2012 | No Winner | No Winner | |
| 2011 | No Winner | No Winner | |
| 2010 | Development of a New Method in Die Design | Professor Akaehomen Ibhadode | |
| 2009 | Discovery of the gene responsible for the creation of Sialidase (SD), an enzyme which causes sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) | Professor Andrew Nok | |
| 2008 | Solution to Road Pavement Destabilisation by the Invention of ‘Lateralite’: A Stabilisation Flux for Fine Grained Lateritic Soils | Dr. Ebenezer Meshida | |
| 2007 | No Winner | No Winner | |
| 2006 | Wound Healing Devices (Formulations) Containing Snail Mucin | Professor Michael Adikwu | |
| 2005 | No Winner | No Winner | |
| 2004 | Real-Time Computer Assisted Leak Detection/Location Reporting and Inventory Loss Monitoring System | Professor Akpoveta Susu & Dr. Kingsley Abhulimen |