UNILAG Don, Dr. Chika Yinka-Banjo Wins MIT-ETT Outstanding Performance In Teaching Award
It is time to roll out the drums for Dr. Chika Yinka-Banjo, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Lagos, as she has won the Outstanding Performance in Teaching Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Empowering The Teachers (MIT-ETT) Programme. She received the award at the MIT-ETT Symposium and Award Ceremony recently held in Lagos. Dr. Yinka-Banjo, who is the Team Lead of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLAB), […]
Nigerian Environmentalist Charges Nigerians to Desist from Destructive Environmental Engagement
Foremost Nigerian Environmentalist and Chairman, Lekki State Urban Forest and Animal Shelter Initiative (LUFASI), Mr. Desmond Majekodunmi has charged Nigerians to desist from destructive environmental engagement. He gave this charge while delivering the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the second (2nd) Annual Conference of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) held at the Faculty of Science, on Thursday, November 30, 2023. Speaking on the theme The […]
Machine Intelligence Research Group (MIRG), UNILAG Holds 3rd International Conference, Dec. 6-7
The Machine Intelligence Research Group (MIRG), University of Lagos is set to hold its 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with the theme: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain for Sustainable Development of MSMEs as follows:Date: Wednesday, December 6 – Thursday, December 7, 2023 Time: 9:00a.m. (WAT) Venue: NITHub, UNILAG Speakers include: Chief Host: Prof. Folasade T. Ogunsola, OON, FAS (Vice-Chancellor, UNILAG) Host: Prof. A Philip Adewole (Head, Department of Computer […]
“What We See as Nothing Today, Has the Potential of Being Important in the Future – Prof. Ogunjemite
Professor of Wildlife Management at the Department of Ecotourism and Wildlife, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Babafemi George Ogunjemite has noted the need for biodiversity conservation in the country as “what we see at nothing today has the potential of being important in the future”. Prof. Ogunjemite cited an example of how a weed he had picked along the wayside in 1982, Phyllanthus amarus, a plant he dubbed “weed of wasteland”, is now an […]
UNILAG Don Co-Wins RSPH Dean’s Pilot and Innovation Grant
An Associate Professor of analytical and environmental chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, Dr. Temilola Oluseyi has won a Rollins School of Public Health Dean’s Pilot and Innovation Grant, with Assistant Professor at the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University in the United States, Dr. Amina Salamova. The grant, with a value of forty-nine thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three dollars ($49,963), is for a project titled: Assessing […]
