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President Bola Tinubu has congratulated six distinguished Diaspora Nigerians named by President Joe Biden among the 400 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in the United States.

A statement issued on Thursday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy) noted that the prestigious recognition, established by former President Bill Clinton in 1996, is the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers.

It said this year’s awardees, announced by President Biden on January 14, 2025, are employed or funded by 14 participating United States government agencies.

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.

Others are 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.

President Tinubu commended these trailblazing Nigerians for their remarkable achievements in science, technology and engineering.

The president noted that recognising these exceptional talents underscores Nigerians’ vast potential to excel both at home and on the global stage.

According to the statement, he looks forward to the honorees sharing their multidisciplinary expertise to benefit Nigeria’s development efforts under the Renewed Hope Agenda.

LegendHero:
I join president Tinubu in congratulating them.

EmperorCaesar:


OP, thanks for the bolded sections of your article. It made the whole task easier for us all. We could see at a glance, what could have taken us 50mins of thorough search.


Congrats to them and they should keep the flag flying.


To the most important part of the message, lets discuss the ethnic origin of the aforementioned individuals on that list.

There seem to be recurrent names of people from a particular region, Why would half of the entire list be concentrated in just one region of the country?

How biased can Biden be? Whats with the Yorubanization of even a random list of excellent Nigerians that was collated 10000 miles away from the country?

EmperorCaesar:


OP, thanks for the bolded sections of your article. It made the whole task easier for us all. We could see at a glance, what could have taken us 50mins of thorough search.


Congrats to them and they should keep the flag flying.


To the most important part of the message, lets discuss the ethnic origin of the aforementioned individuals on that list.

There seem to be recurrent names of people from a particular region, Why would half of the entire list be concentrated in just one region of the country?

How biased can Biden be? Whats with the Yorubanization of even a random list of excellent Nigerians that was collated 10000 miles away from the country?

TimeManager:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/tinubu-congratulates-nigerian-engineers-scientists-on-making-bidens-honours-list/amp/

zero8zero:
Biden is marginalizing us, this is Yorubanization of PECASE awards. We go dey alright las las.

TimeManager:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/tinubu-congratulates-nigerian-engineers-scientists-on-making-bidens-honours-list/amp/

richiemcgold:
If you have money, use it to build your children's career instead of building houses upandown.

Uranos:
Tinubu please face Nigeria problems and fix it please ebimpawa ooooo Tinubu

TimeManager:
Nigeria, good people, great nation.


-Kiss the truth!