President Bola Tinubu has congratulated six distinguished Diasporan Nigerians who have been recognized by President Joe Biden as part of the 400 recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in the United States. This award, established by former President Bill Clinton in 1996, is the highest honor given by the US government to outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers.
The Nigerian honorees include Azeez Butali, Gilbert Lilly Endowed Professor of Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, University of Iowa; Ijeoma Opara, Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale School of Public Health, Yale University; and Oluwatomi Akindele, Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Eno Ebong, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biology at Northeastern University; Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University; and Abidemi Ajiboye, Executive Vice Chair of the Case School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University.
Also, the President congratulated the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Mr Fola Adeola, and the Managing Director of Sahara Power Group, Mr Kola Adesina, on the conferment of honorary doctorates by the University of Lagos.
