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Sanya Dojo Onabamiro

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Sanya Dojo Onabamiro was a Nigerian academic and politician.

Sanya Dojo Onabamiro (1913–1985) was a Nigerian copepodologist, statesman, and academic. He earned his PhD from the University of Ibadan in 1951 and was, according to his thesis supervisor, Kenneth Mellanby, "the first person to qualify for a PhD degree in any colonial university college".

Onabamiro is attributed as having discovered the cause of dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm disease).

Onabamiro died in 1985. and the education sector in Nigeria.

A guinea worm, Tropocyclops Onabamiroid, was named in his honour.

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