Three people have been selected as winners of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Science 2024 organised by Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG).

The Chairperson of the advisory board for the prize, Prof. Barth Nnaji, announced this at a news conference in Lagos yesterday. He said Eni Oko, Olajide Otitoju and Meihong Wang won the 2024 edition with their innovative work on carbon capture.

Their work has the title, “Process Intensification Technology for Greenhouse Emission Control in Power Generation and Industry for Sustainable Fuel Production (PIC-FUEL).”

The theme of the prize for the 2024 edition is: “Innovations and Technologies for Reducing the Effect of Climate Change.” Nnaji said the panel of judges for the Nigeria Prize for Science received 153 entries from scientists worldwide for the 2024 edition.

Speaking on the winners, he said: “Eni Oko is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University, U.K while Olajide Otitoju is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, U.K.

“The third person, Mei hong Wang, is a Professor of Process and Energy Systems Engineering, specialising in Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) at the University of Sheffield, UK.”