Nigeria: Female Don Wins Best PhD Award

Posted to the web 23 July 2008 Adibe Emenyonu Benin-City The National Universities Commission [NUC] has pronounced Dr. Ijeoma Patience Obuh of the University of Benin as having the best-written PH.D thesis in science in all Nigerian universities for the year 2005. Obuh is a lecturer 1 in the Department of Animal Science and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Life Science of the university. University Spokesman, Mr. Eddy Akpomera, said in a release that the award was presented by the NUC at the 2008 Nigerian Doctoral Thesis Award Scheme [NUDTAS] held at the Usman Dan-Fodio University, Sokoto. Adjudging the doctoral thesis as the best, the Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Julius Okojie remarked that the study was the first of its kind. The thesis, a popular river in Delta State examined some aspects of the water quality and... [read full story]