- Two Nigerian scholars, Olutayo Adesina and Abubakar Sani, have bagged the British Academy Global Professorship Award
- While Adesina is a professor at the University of Ibadan, Sani, who is also a professor at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), doubles as deputy director at the ABU Zaria Institute for Development Research and Training
- Each of the scholars will get £900,000 for the execution of their respective projects, according to the British Academy
Two Nigerian professors have made the list of academics across the world who will bag the 2023 British Academy Global Professorship Award.
The Nigerians are Olutayo Adesina, a professor of History at the University of Ibadan, and Abubakar Sani, a former Head of Department in the Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU).
