The vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Dr. Temitope Onuminya, have won the 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants, an international organization with Secretariat in Copenhagen, focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available through the internet.

This was disclosed by a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, Mrs. Nonye Oguama, in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. According to Oguama, the awards are part of the 2021 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) program, funded by the European Union.

Professor Ogundipe 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”.

Onuminya on the other hand won an institutional level grant of 18,850 Euros for the implementation of a BID project proposal: “Expanding the Visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitisation and Mobilisation of Plant Specimen Data”.