Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, vice-chancellor of the University of
Lagos (UNILAG), has won a €38,000 Global Biodiversity Information Facility
(GBIF) grant.
In a statement on Saturday, in Lagos, Nonye Oguama,
principal assistant registrar, corporate affairs of the institution, said the
awards are part of the 2021 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID)
programme funded by the European Union (EU).
Ogundipe, a professor of botany, won the national level
grant for his project proposal “Implementation of the Biodiversity Information
and Data System for Coastal Ecosystem in Nigeria”.
Another lecturer of UNILAG, Temitope Onuminya, a botanist, was also named among the winners of the grant.
Onuminya won an institutional level grant of €18,850 for
implementation of a BID project proposal titled “Expanding the Visibility of
the Lagos Herbarium through Digitisation and Mobilisation of Plant Specimen
Data”.
”The University of Lagos (UNILAG) is rejoicing with them
(mentor and mentee) and wishes them successful implementation of their
proposals,” Oguama said.
The GBIF, an international organisation with secretariat in
Copenhagen, Denmark, focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available
through 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.
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