Ayoka Olufunmilayo Adebambo

Ayoka Olufunmilayo Adebambo is a Nigerian scientist and professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics. She is the first female professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics. She was awarded the status of a Fellow of the Animal Science Association of Nigeria (ASAN) in September 2010.

Quotes

• Nigeria spent 18 million dollars on chicken importation in 2009 alone. If the government spends half of that money on developing local breeds; imagine what that will translate to.
  • Speaking at the presentation of Certificate of Registration for FUNAAB Alpha (28 August 2018)

• While other countries are talking of electricity-powered vehicles, driverless trucks, and 200miles per hour trains, we are still battling with narrow gauge rail lines and Never Expect Power Always (NEPA), or Hold on your Power (Power Holding).
  • One of the major problems of Nigeria (24 April 2019)
• I am different from you because of my genetic makeup. You need to know your genotype yourself, to enable you know the type of food you can eat and those you cannot eat or whether you are carrying genetic diseases
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• FUNAAB’s Biotechnology Centre was fully equipped to provide an array of services that border on Animal Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology, Protein Analysis, Bio-informatics, among others
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