The Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Temitope Onuminya, have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants.
Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos.
According to Mrs Oguama, the awards are part of the 2021 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme, funded by the European Union.
Mr Ogundipe, a Professor of Botany, 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”.
Mr Onuminya, on the other hand, gained an institutional degree grant of 18,850 euros for implementation of a BID task inspiration: “Expanding the Visibility of the Lagos Herbarium thru Digitisation and Mobilisation of Plant Specimen Data”.
“The college of Lagos is rejoicing with them (mentor and mentee) and desires them a success implementation of their proposals,” Mrs Oguama said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reviews that the GBIF, an international company with Secretariat in Copenhagen, specializes in making scientific records on biodiversity to be had via the internet.
It presents human sources and technical infrastructure permitting booklet of and get right of entry to to massive volumes of statistics accumulated over centuries approximately the earth’s species.
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