Grants and Writing Resources for the University of Lagos
UNILAG students took first, second and third place at the 2025 Bode Osunkoya Research Competition, held at the PSRG-Richardson Oil & Gas HSSE Forum in Lagos. The winning entry, from a chemical engineering student, used machine learning and open-source energy data to model energy growth scenarios for Nigeria. The runners-up came from mechanical engineering and pharmacy. In June 2026 a pair from the Faculty of Arts won the Inter-Faculty Debate and ₦200,000, with a final argued on how universities should respond to generative AI.
Where Research Is Presented
The Central Research Committee convenes the UNILAG Annual Research Conference and Fair. Its 19th edition, in October 2026, ran eight interdisciplinary tracks with a research fair alongside for all three days. Students pay a student registration rate. Student teams can apply for fair stands, and sponsors fund student paper prizes.
Accepted oral presentations are considered for publication in the UNILAG Journal of Humanities or the UNILAG Journal of Medicine, Science and Technology. Both appear on the university's journals page with titles such as Lagos Notes and Records and the Lagos Review of English Studies.
Competitions and Undergraduate Awards
Six undergraduates won the Nigerian round of the 2024 CFA Institute Research Challenge in a field of 24 Nigerian universities. It was the fifth straight win for a UNILAG team. The students went on to the regional stage for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Grades count too. In May 2026 the Student Affairs Division hosted the presentation of the Sage-Grey Finance Scholarship, which gave ₦100,000 each to the five 200-level students with the highest CGPAs.
Doctoral Prizes and Research Grants
The 56th Convocation in January 2026 graduated 147 Ph.D. and DBA candidates and presented Best Ph.D. Thesis awards in the sciences and the humanities, an overall Best Ph.D. Thesis and a Best DBA Thesis from the University of Lagos Business School. The president of the UNILAG Alumni Association gave each of those doctoral award winners ₦500,000 and a plaque.
Outside grant calls are posted by the university. The Chief S.L. Edu Memorial Ph.D. Research Grant, sponsored by Chevron Nigeria Limited and announced by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, is open to Nigerian doctoral students in conservation-related research, with enquiries going to the UNILAG Research Management Office. The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies offered $1,000 in 2020 for the IADS-Rahamon Bello Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in African and Diaspora Studies.
Writing Help and Theses
The School of Postgraduate Studies matriculated 7,615 new students for the 2025/2026 session, 107 of them doctoral. With the TETFund Center of Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management, it ran a free manuscript writing workshop in March 2025 for postgraduate students and early-career researchers.
The Library's Research Help service books appointments with a librarian. Theses fall under the university's Plagiarism Policy, and the School of Postgraduate Studies must give students copies of the policy and the citation guide. Scholarly work by the university community is archived in the University of Lagos Research Repository.
Before a UNILAG thesis or paper is submitted, our editors can check it for grammar, consistency and format. See our University of Lagos dissertation and thesis editing and University of Lagos essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.
From Our Writing Guides
Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Managing Editor of Editors For Students. Links checked October 2026.
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