This is a list of Nigerian scientists and scholars. Nigeria is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa.

A

Akin Abayomi – pathologist Sulyman Age Abdulkareem chemical engineer Bala Achi – historian Iya Abubakar – mathematician Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh – chemical pathologist Ameyo Adadevoh - Physician Ladipo Adamolekun – public administrator Anthony Afolabi Adegbola – animal scientist Anthony Adegbulugbe – electrical engineer and energy management Maggie Aderin–Pocock – space scientist Ilesanmi Adesida – physicist Olutayo Charles Adesina – historian Isaac Adewole – gynaecologist Olanike Adeyemo – veterinary medicine and preventive medicine Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – writer Adiele Afigbo – historian Joseph Ahaneku – chemical pathologist Folahanmi Aina –political scientist Lenrie Olatokunbo Aina – library and information scientist Deborah Ajakaiye – geophysicist J. F. Ade Ajayi – historian Seth Sunday Ajayi – wildlife ecologist Oladele Ajose – public health Esther Titilayo Akinlabi – mechanical engineer Dora Akunyili – pharmacist Grace Alele–Williams – mathematician Ambrose Folorunsho Alli – pathologist Olajide Aluko – international relations Uche Veronica Amazigo – biologist and parasitologist El Anatsui – sculpture Alexander Animalu – physicist Anya Oko Anya – parasitologist Ishaya Audu – pediatrician Sarki Auwalu chemical engineer Eme Awa – political scientist Ayodele Awojobi – mechanical engineer

B

Olumbe Bassir – biochemistry and microbiology Ekanem Ikpi Braide – parasitologist

D

John Dabiri – aeronautical engineering and biophysics Bello Bako Dambatta – chemist Kenneth Dike – historian Ikechukwu Dozie – public health scientist

E

ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer - bioinformatician Michael Echeruo – literature Philip Emeagwali – mathematician and engineer Emmanuel Emovon – chemist Charles Esimone – pharmacist Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze – philosopher Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani – librarian

F

Babs Fafunwa – educationist Toyin Falola – historian Adeyinka Gladys Falusi – haematologist Oluwole Babafemi Familoni – chemist Abdullahi dan Fodio – Islamic theologian and jurist

G

Ibrahim Gambari – political scientist Adenike Grange – medicine Oye Gureje – psychiatry

I

Oni Idigbe – medical researcher Albert Ilemobade – veterinarian Maurice Iwu – pharmacist Sunday Iyahen – mathematician

K

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu – political scientist Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Kishnawi – mathematician

L

Abisogun Leigh – animal scientist

M

Akin Mabogunje – geographer Emmanuel Ndubisi Maduagwu – biochemist Awele Maduemezia – physicist Oliver Mobisson – computer scientist Fatima Batul Mukhtar – botanist

N

Chinedu Ositadinma Nebo – engineer Eni Njoku – botanist Bartholomew Nnaji – mechanical and industrial engineering Andrew Jonathan Nok – biochemist Hadiza Nuhu – pharmacist Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi – environmental biochemist Humphrey Nwosu – political scientist

O

John Obafunwa – pathologist Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe – systems engineer Chike Obi – mathematician Abiola Odejide – linguist Latunde Odeku – neurosurgeon Josephat Obi Oguejiofor – philosopher Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola – chemist Babatunde Ogunnaike – chemical engineer Adetoun Ogunsheye – library scientist Ayo Ogunsheye – adult education Peter Okebukola – researcher and administrator Francisca Nneka Okeke – physicist Friday Okonofua – gynaecologist Samuel Okoye – astrophysicist Isidore Okpewho – novelist and critic Ben Okri – writer Ifedayo Oladapo – civil engineer Ibiyemi Olatunji–Bello – physiologist Abel Idowu Olayinka – geophysicist Olufunmilayo Olopade – oncologist Is-haq Oloyede – Islamic studies Adegoke Olubummo - mathematician Kunle Olukotun – electrical engineering and computer scientist Hezekiah Oluwasanmi – agricultural economist Sophie Oluwole – philosopher Bennet Omalu – forensic pathologist Akinyinka Omigbodun – gynaecologist Michael Omolewa – educationist Peter Onumanyi – mathematician Kalu Mosto Onuoha – geophysicist Obinna Onwujekwe – health economist Viola Onwuliri – biochemist Cyril Agodi Onwumechili – nuclear physicist Yemi Osinbajo – lawyer Femi Osofisan – writer Rose Osuji – physicist Niyi Osundare – literature Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun – neurologist Bruce Ovbiagele - neurologist, researcher, administrator, and editor Victor Adenuga Oyenuga – agriculturist Nelson M. Oyesiku – neurosurgeon and endocrinologist

P

Chinedum Babalola – pharmacist

R

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti – paediatrician Ola Rotimi – playwright

S

Omowunmi Sadik – chemist Lateef Akinola Salako – pharmacologist Arinola Olasumbo Sanya – physiotherapy Umaru Shehu – physician Winston Wole Soboyejo – mechanical and aerospace engineering John Olubi Sodipo – philosopher Olusoga Sofola – physiologist Zulu Sofola – playwright and dramatist Olaitan Soyannwo – anesthetist Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi – botanist and environmental archaeologist

T

Tekena Tamuno – historian Grace Oladunni Taylor – biochemist Adeyinka Tella – librarian and professor Oyewale Tomori – virologist Mahmud Modibbo Tukur – historian

U

Fabian Udekwu – cardiac surgeon Chinyere Ukaga – environmental biologist and parasitologist Ibrahim Umar (physicist) – physicist Jarlath Udoudo Umoh – veterinary doctor Yusuf Bala Usman – historian Patrick Utomi – political economist

W

Eka Esu Williams – immunologist

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