Rabia Salihu Sa'id
En 2015 recibió uno de los cinco premios de la Fundación Elsevier para mujeres científicas del mundo en desarrollo. Presentado en colaboración con la Organización para las Mujeres en Ciencia para el Mundo en Desarrollo (OWSD) y La Academia Mundial de Ciencias (TWAS), los premios de ese año fueron para los campos de física y matemáticas, con el premio Sa'id en el campo de física atmosférica. Recibió el premio por su trabajo sobre los desafíos ambientales de Nigeria, que se presentó el 14 de febrero de 2015 en la reunión anual de la American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) en San José, California.
Grace Oladunni Taylor
Her specialty was the analysis of lípidos in cardiovascular disease and her comparison of lipid metabolism confirmed that cholesterol levels are not a product of race, but rather diet and exercise levels. She was awarded numerous honors for her research, including the Shell-BP Scholarship in Chemistry, a World Health Organization Fellowship, the Fulbright–Hays Fellowship, a Ciba-Geigy Fellowship, and the Association of African Universities Fellowship. Taylor was inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science in 1997, as the second woman to have ever been honored as an inductee. In 1998, the L'Oréal-UNESCO prize was launched to award one woman from each of five regions—Africa and Arab states, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America—for their scientific achievement and contributions to improving humanity. Taylor was the African recipient in the inaugural honorees of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, becoming the first African to receive the award. In 2012, she was honored by the Ekiti State Government for her contributions to mentoring and teaching medical students.