BEVERLY HILLS, March 20, (THEWILL) – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist described as his mentee, Temitope Onuminya, have won the 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants.
According to the Principal Assistant Registrar for Corporate Affairs of Unilag, Mrs. Nonye Oguama, in a statement on Saturday, the awards formed part of the 2021 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme, funded by the European Union.
Ogundipe, a Professor of Botany, won the grant of €38,000 for his project proposal, titled, “Implementation of the Biodiversity Information and Data System for Coastal Ecosystem in Nigeria.”
His fellow grant winner, Onuminya, secured an institutional level grant of €18,850 to carry out his project proposal, themed, “Expanding the Visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitisation and Mobilisation of Plant Specimen Data.”
Oguama said: “The University of Lagos is rejoicing with them (mentor and mentee) and wishes them successful implementation of their proposals.”
GBIF, based in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, aims at making scientific data on biodiversity available via the internet.
