In his congratulatory message to six Nigerian scientists, engineers for making it into President Biden’s honours list, former President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, wrote: “On the 14th of January 2025, President Biden named 400 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in the United States. It is no surprise that six Nigerians stand to be counted among the honourees.
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| Nigerian scientists, engineers in President Biden’s honours list |
“Take a bow Azeez Butali, a Gilbert Lilly Professor of Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, University of Iowa; Ijeoma Opara, an Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale School of Public Health, Yale University; Dr. Oluwatomi Akindele, a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Eno Ebong, an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biology at Northeastern University; Oluwasanmi Koyejo, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Abidemi Ajiboye, an Executive Vice Chair of the Case School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University.
It is a thing of pride and joy to have scientists and engineers of Nigerian origin counted among the awardees.”
