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Professor Olatunde Samuel Dahunsi has emerged as the first Nigerian Scientist to win the Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship in the 2022/2023 cohort of 50 fellows.

Professor Dahunsi, a Professor of Environmental Microbiology at Bowen University is one of the three Africans selected as Fellows in the 2022/2023 cohort.

He becomes the first Nigerian scientist who broke the jinx and became the first ever Harvard Radcliffe Fellow in the Sciences, coming after Chimamanda Adichie who won the Fellowship in 2011/2012 on Fiction and Poetry, Ifeoma Fafunwa who won the Fellowship in 2017/2018 in Performing Arts and Chidi Ugwu the winner in 2020/2021 on Anthropology.

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Professor Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola Emerges UNILAG’s First Female Vice Chancellor

Professor Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola (nee Mabogunje) has emerged as the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

Her appointment was announced on October 7, 2022 by the UNILAG governing council as she becomes the first female vice-chancellor in the school’s 60-year history, and the 13th vice-chancellor of the university.

She is a Nigerian Professor of medical microbiology and specializes in disease control, particularly HIV/AIDS.

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Winners Of 2022 Presidential Teachers And School Excellence Award

Winners have emerged in various categories of the 2022 Presidential Teachers and School Excellence Award by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The award ceremony held on October 5, 2022 at the Eagle Square in Abuja was held to celebrate the World Teachers Day.

The winners were drawn from tens of nominees in different public and private primary and secondary schools across the country.

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