List of Nigerian scientists and scholars
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This is a list of Nigerian scientists and scholars. Nigeria is
a federal constitutional republic comprising
36 states and its [[Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria|Federal Capital Territory]], Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the [[Gulf of Guinea]] on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.
Nigerian scientists and scholars
- Sammani D. Abdullahi Computing Algorithmist
- Iya Abubakar mathematician
- Sarki Abba Abdulkadir pathologist, microbiologist
- Chinua Achebe writer
- Ladipo Adamolekun public administration
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writer
- Adiele Afigbo historian
- Joseph Afolabi
- Deborah Ajakaiye geophysicist
- Jacob Ade Ajayi historian
- Oladele Ajose public health
- Grace Alele-Williams mathematician
- Ambrose Folorunsho Alli pathologist
- Emmanuel Babatunde Alo applied biologist
- Olajide Aluko international relations
- El Anatsui sculpture
- Alexander Animalu physicist
- Anya Oko Anya parasitologist
- Ishaya Audu pediatrician
- Eme Awa political scientist
- Ayodele Awojobi mechanical engineer
- Afe Babalola
- Olumbe Bassir biochemistry and microbiology
- John Dabiri aeronautical engineering and biophysics
- Michael Echeruo literature
- Dale Brown Emeagwali microbiologist and cancer researcher
- Philip Emeagwali mathematician and engineer
- Babs Fafunwa educationist
- Toyin Falola historian
- Gani Fawehimi
- Ibrahim Gambari political scientist
- Oliver Mobisson computer scientist
- Eni Njoku botanist
- Bartholomew Nnaji mechanical and industrial engineering
- Ejikeme Patrick Nwosu scientist
- Humphrey Nwosu political scientist
- Chike Obi mathematician
- Ayo Ogunsheye adult education
- Moses Sola Ogunsola
- Francisca Nneka Okeke physicist
- Samuel Okoye astrophysicist
- Ben Okri writer
- Olufunmilayo Olopade oncologist
- Kunle Olukotun electrical engineering and computer science
- Hezekiah Ademola Oluwafemi agricultural economist
- Sophie Oluwole philosophy
- Michael Omolewa educationist
- Niyi Osundare literature
- Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun neurologist
- Winston Wole Soboyejo mechanical and aerospace engineering
- Wole Soyinka writer
- Ibrahim H. Umar physicist
Ayodele Awojobi mechanical engineer
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