Tuesday 11 July 2017

Science Nigeria Lectures 2017: Wednesday July 12, 2017 at the University of Abuja

The intellectual community and the general public are hereby invited to the lecture no.1 of the Science Nigeria Lectures 2017 which comes under the distinguished chairmanship of His Excellency, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Honourable Minister of Science and Technology, and holds Wednesday July 12, 2017 at the Management Science Hall, University of Abuja, by 10am prompt.

The Science Nigeria Lectures is an effort towards not only promoting the works and contributions of Nigerian scientists, but also in interfacing them with the Nigerian public. The lecture strives to promote public understanding of science, inculcate the much-needed scientific culture in the lives of Nigerians, and at the same time, generate and sustain interest in the sciences in public domain. Through these lectures, many become aware of the exploits of Nigerian scientists in the global scientific arena. Again, through these lectures, many young people in the Nigerian society become not only inspired in pursuing careers sciences, but also in making enduring contributions in them.

The Science Nigeria Lectures is also another way of celebrating Nigerian scientists who have had a minimum of 50 years of outstanding research contributions in the sciences, and as such, making them stand as role models for generations following. It is a way in which these distinguished scientists give to science and the society at large, the benefits of their experience and impressions. It is indeed a celebratory intellectual harvest.

Brief Citation of Professor Aderemi Oluyomi Kuku: The Oracle for the Science Nigeria Lectures 2017

Our great oracle for the Science Nigeria Lectures
Professor Aderemi Oluyomi Kuku
2017 is no other than Professor Aderemi Oluyomi Kuku, one of Africa’s finest in Mathematics and the current President of the African Academy of Sciences (the highest science academy in the whole of Africa). He is also a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, and was, at one time, the William W. S. Clayton Endowed Professor of Mathematics at Grambling State University, Louisiana, USA.

Born March 20 1941 in Ijebu-Ode (Ogun State), he attended St. James School (Oke-Odan, Ogun State) and Eko Boys High School (Lagos) for both primary and secondary school education respectively, and later proceeded to the University of London (Makerere University College), where he obtained B.Sc. (Special Honours) in Mathematics in 1965. He was also to obtain M.Sc. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in Mathematics from the University of Ibadan, with his Ph.D. thesis written in Columbia University (New York), under the supervision of legendary mathematician, Professor Hyman Bass.