WorldStage Newsonline– The Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Science sponsored by the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) and chaired by Professor Barth Nnaji is sets to announce the final result by the judges for this 2024 cycle in Lagos on Monday, 9th September 2024.
Professor Hippolite Amadi with an entry “Low-cost Respiratory Technologies for Keeping the Nigerian Neonates Alive” won the $100,000 cash prize for 2023 while Muhydideen Oyekunle and Shehu Ado through the entry “Gains in Grain Yield of Released Maize (Zea Mays L.) Cultivars under Drought and Well-Watered Conditions” jointly won the prize with Sesan Peter Ayodeji and Emmanuel Olatunji Olatomilola through the entry “Development of Process Plant for Plantain Flour” in 2022.
According to a source, entries were received to compete for “Innovations and Technologies for Reducing the Effect of Climate Change” for the 2024 edition.
“The theme also has significant implications for solutions in Nigeria’s energy industry,” the source said.
About The Nigeria Prize for Science
The Nigeria Prize for Science celebrates excellence in scientific breakthroughs and honours scientists from anywhere in the world who help find solutions to a local or ‘Nigerian’ problem as defined and advertised by the Advisory Board for the prize.
The Prize is an annual prize aimed at stimulating the advancement and application of science and technology. It is expected that the quest for a prestigious prize in science will improve science and technology in Nigeria, resolve issues that are germane to development of the country and help improve the standards of living.
The prize is administered on behalf of Nigeria LNG Limited by the Advisory Board for Science. The current Advisory Board is chaired by Professor Barth Nnaji, an internationally-acclaimed professor of robotics, Nigeria’s former Minister of Science and Technology, and former Minister of Power. Other members of the Board are Chief (Dr.) Mrs. Nike Akande, Nigeria’s former Minister of Industries and Chairman of Lagos Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, and Professor Yusuf Abubakar, a professor of Animal Breeding and Quantitative Genetics and the Coordinator of Agriculture Group, R & D Standing Committee, at the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.
When an entry has been found worthy of winning the Prize, the name of the winner (s) is announced in October, commemorating the first export of LNG cargo by NLNG on October 9, 1999.
