The Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and a botanist, Dr. Temitope Onuminya have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants.
Mrs. Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos.
Following reports from Oguama, the awards are part of the 2021 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme, sponsored by the European Union.
Ogundipe, a Professor of Botany, in the Federal University of Lagos, won a national level grant of 38,000 euros for his project proposal: “Implementation of the Biodiversity Information and Data System for Coastal Ecosystem in Nigeria”.
Onuminya,also won an institutional level grant of 18,850 euros for implementation of a BID project proposal: “Expanding the Visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitisation and Mobilisation of Plant Specimen Data”. “The university of Lagos is rejoicing with them (mentor and mentee) and wishes them successful implementation of their proposals,” Oguama said. The GBIF, an international organization with Secretariat on Copenhagen, focuses in making scientific data in biodiversity available on the internet. It provides human resources and technical infrastructure enabling publication of and access to large volumes of data gathered over centuries about the earth’s species. (NAN)
