"Indeed, I feel great. I believe that this is a confirmation of hard work over the years. These Fellow awards do not come without hard work and recognition of your area of specialty over the years and I must say it has been God. I acknowledge unashamedly that I am what I am by the grace of God. If it was left to man, I would not have been able to achieve this much."

"Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong. You belong where you believe you belong.” This is a quote from “Queen of Katwe”, a book by Tim Crothers and also a Disney film, narrating the story of a young Ugandan girl Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy, who overcame many stereotypes and broke a lot of barriers to become a woman candidate master after her victories at World Chess Olympiads."

"The people that inspire me the most are Nigerien women. They are so keen to make the lives of the future generation better."

"Studying the complexities of the Earth’s natural systems is most exciting to me. I really enjoy thinking about different ways to unravel some of these complexities. The water cycle is like a puzzle – it may take time to get the right pieces and put them together, but once it is done, it is beautiful to see how the story unfolds and comes together. It is fascinating to understand how a tiny piece of Mother Nature works and how human beings are altering the natural systems."

"My role model was my late mother, Mrs. Stella Okwui Ebigwei who was a widow. She instilled discipline, hard work and fear and reverence of God in my sister and I and so I had a focus that I would not derail but be a notable person someday. She was my strong supporter and always called me ‘Star’."

"My most challenging period was when I lost my mother and it dawned on me that I had no parents on planet Earth. My most inspiring period comes when I see those that I have trained doing well."

"My laboratory is referred to as a German laboratory because most (85%) of the equipment I have in my laboratory was bought wiith the German funding by by either the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation or the German Research Foundation (DFG)."

"I started my molecular biology hands-on-training workshop in 2009. This followed my post-doctoral fellowships in France and Germany. I realised that molecular biology techniques were not common then and I was interested in building the capacity of the young ones as well as interested participants who comprised university lecturers, Medical Laboratory Scientists and other stakeholders from different geo-political zones in the country."

"The IOCs operating in the country has cooperated with government with regard to the geological surveys by supplying data where demanded. “Now we don’t have enough data to attract investors, but after the studies companies can now begin to explore for oil based on the findings."

"You’ve chosen the right subject. You’re in the right faculty, It’ll take you places in life if you make the best use of the opportunity it offers—to become better versions of yourselves and to be of service to others"

"The Basin (Chad) lies along the West and Central African Rift System. All the basins along the rift zone like Doba, Salamar, Bongo and the Chad Tannit in Niger, there have been a lot of finds and oil exploration."

"The NNPC had done an integrated study of the Chad Basin with 10 international companies, during which 23 oil wells were drilled and areas with oil and gas potential were determined."

"With regard to the concentration of survey in the Chad Basin, I explained that this is because a lot of finds have been made in other neighbouring countries along the rift zone."

"Previous works in the Anambra basin had yielded little results, as of the eight wells drilled in the region, seven of them had gas with only found with oil, “so more work is needed to be done in this area to quantify the studies… in Bida, Sokoto and Benue basins, we have not drilled any wells."

"A comprehensive and simultaneous survey acquisition of gravity for electro-magnetic study of the basins for 2D seismic and 3D seismic in the areas found to be very prolific."

"Now we don’t have enough data to attract investors, but after the studies companies can now begin to explore for oil based on the findings."

"All these are part of the work being done for frontier exploration in the country, while explaining that for now, government is saddled with all the responsibility of doing the surveys to prove the prospectivity of the basins, as the International Oil Companies, IOCs will only come in thereafter."

"Every country has strategic policy regarding its natural resources in order to preserve them. So we can’t rule out the possibility that we might have strategic reserve areas and the Department of Petroleum resources, DPR, will demarcate the areas."

"The Chinese have found 500 million barrels reserves in Chad itself and a pipeline is being laid to Segigi Field, where a refinery is being built, which is going to serve the whole of Chad. Also, another 500 million barrels were found in the Tannit in Niger, and we have similar soil structure and similar basin, which makes sense to intensify surveys in our own Chad Basin."

"Do a good job of research and teaching, put yourself out there in the faces of companies who will support your work and the Department with donations of critical equipment. It is in their enlightened self-interest, and it will be a win-win for both of you.."

"They have the ability to transform an environment in a way that no other plant can."

"Half of the world's palms originate in Madagascar, but Africans are not interested."

"There are plants everywhere but palms have a special aura"

"It's the Westerners who go there in search of plants that are going into extinction, which they then take back to their own countries."

"The goal is to design technology that would change human behaviours or attitudes."

"“Equality is not about men, it’s also not about women; it’s about providing a nurturing environment where people of diverse traits can maximize their potential.”"

"A promising approach to health promotion and disease prevention that has emerged recently is persuasive technology."

"As of 2008 it was reported that approximately 61% of Canadian adults and 30% of Canadian teens are either overweight or obese."

"A successful intervention for changing human behaviour should be based on the understanding of how behaviours are formed and how they can be altered."

"According to measured height and weight data from both the 2008 Canadian Community Health Survey and the 2007-2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey."

"Most lifestyle related health challenges, including obesity, that we experience today."

"Considering the widespread health education and health campaigns, yet this is not the case, it is very hard to make people stop smoking, eat healthfully, and exercise regularly."

"Rational people would change their behaviours when exposed to convincing information about the negative effects on their health."

"I've had in actively working in this area over the past two years."

"When it comes to lifestyle, we cannot assume that humans will necessarily behave rationally."

"It has attracted attention from both governmental and non-governmental bodies."

"I'll be sharing the knowledge I've gained from studying relevant literatures and from some research experiences."

"They are not well integrated into people's daily lives and therefore face the problems of adoption and maintenance."

"They are not cost effective and therefore face the problem of long-term sustainability."

"How behaviours are formed and how they can be altered."

"My primary research focus is on the influence of persuasive technology in the prevention of chronic metabolic diseases through lifestyle change, particularly the prevention of obesity."

"I was awarded a Canadian government Vanier scholarship to conduct research on the design of persuasive technologies for healthy lifestyle change with a specific focus on obesity prevention."

"They are based on the assumption that humans are rational beings and will always act to maximize benefit and reduce risk."

"I am under the mentorship of Dr. Julita Vassileva and Dr. Regan Mandryk."

"The truth in life is that if you are somebody that has not seen money before if you see money you’ll start shaking."

"Like I said earlier I like to venture into what many believe would be impossible, so I revamped the undergraduate curriculum for the computer science programme, established the PGD, MSc and PhD Computer Science programmes and was on the verge of establishing the Faculty of Computing when I was posted out for another assignment."

"The position offered me an opportunity to do what I love doing the most – nurturing young minds through education."

"I accepted the position because I believed, and still do, in the vision of the Founder."

"So I want to beg the people of Ajegunle, don’t allow people use you to stop good projects."

"I love challenges. I love solving difficult problems. I love to tread where everyone else dreads."