NIGERIA AT UNESCO...
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LIST OF FELLOWSHIPS AND
AWARDS GIVEN TO NIGERIA

1:
UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy awarded to
the Mrs. Alaere Augustina Timi Alaibe led Family
Re-orientation Education and Empowerment, (FREE):
Community Based Organization: July, 2007.

For more information please visit our news and events page:
News, Events and Links from Nigeria at UNESCO

You can also visit the official
Web site of FREE at:
Family Re-orientation Education and Empowerment

And also, the following UNESCO official page:
2007 UNESCO Literacy Prizes Awarded

2:

Dr. [Mrs.] Aisha Abubakar ABDULWAHAB

UNESCO-L'OREAL Fellowship for
Women in Science: 2005

Aisha Abubakar Abdulwahab has a doctorate in veterinary
medicine and is currently working as a veterinary doctor
for the Nigerian Police Force in Abuja. She is also has
an outstanding joint PhD in public health from Ahmadu
Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria and the University
of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.

For her fellowship research project, which also
contributed to her PhD, Mrs. Abdulwahab studied the
prevalence of human and bovine tuberculosis (TB) in
the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Kaduna
State in Nigeria.

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease caused by members
of the Mycobacterium family of bacteria. It can affect
both humans and cattle and, despite being curable, still
kills some 2 million people every year worldwide. Humans
can be affected either through direct exposure to TB
patients or contaminated cattle carcasses, or via the
consumption of contaminated products such as
unpasteurized milk from infected cattle.

Mrs. Abdulwahab took samples of sputum from Tuberculosis
patients in hospitals; and lesions from infected cattle
slaughtered in abattoirs in the study area. She also
screened cattle on farms and took milk and blood
samples from those infected with TB. She thereafter
isolated and characterized the different strains of human
and bovine Mycobacterium present in the samples and
extracted their DNA. The DNA was analyzed using the
molecular biology facilities available at the University
of Plymouth. The results helped determine whether
there are genetic similarities between the human and
bovine Mycobacterium strains and whether
cross-contamination of TB between humans and
cattle is a possibility.

This information will be used to inform national
policy on tuberculosis control and in educative
programs for Nigerian cattle farmers.

3:
Ms. Maryam AMINU
UNESCO-L'OREAL Fellowship for Women in Science: 2004

4:
Ms. Sodangi A. LUKA
L'OREAL-UNESCO Young Women in Life Science Award: 2003

5:
Mr. Adeyemi OLUMEGBON
UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists: 2002

6:
Professor Adeyinka Gladys FALUSI
L'OREAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science: 2001

7:
Ms. Immaculata ETA
UNESCO-REPUBLIC OF KOREA Fellowship: 2001

8:
Ms. Rebecca Salu LIVINGSTON
UNESCO-L'OREAL Women in Science Fellowship: 2001

9:
Ms. Oluwatoyin ODEKU
UNESCO-ISRAEL Science & Technology Fellowship: 2001

10:
Ms. Oluwatoyin F. OSUNDAHUNSI
UNESCO-ISRAEL Science & Technology Fellowship: 2001

11:
Ms. Clarice Ifedun OLUSUYI
RP Fellowship Bank: 2000

12:
Ms. Victoria Ademola ODUSANYA
UNESCO-Republic of Korea IPDC Fellowship: 2000

13:
Professor Grace O. TAYLOR
L'OREAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science: 1998

For more information; including pictures
please, visit the web site of L'Oreal, at:
For Women in Science

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