Biographical overview
to join the Cross River Basin Development Authority as her pioneer Public Relations Officer. At the Authority he held increasingly several senior management positions including Senior Public Relations Officer, Principal Public Relations Officer and Assistant Chief Public Relations Offocer. Barrister Essien studied Law at the University of Calabar between 1987-1992 and was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Laws(LL.B) Honours Second Class (Upper Division) on completion of the programme of study. He attended Law School in 1993 and was called to the Nigerian Bar on 16th December, 1993. He returned to the Cross River Basin Development Authority to become her Secretary/Legal Adviser and later promoted to the position of Assistant General Manager (Administration and Finance) a position he held until he was appointed the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Authority by the President and Commander-in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in January 2011. Following this position, he sat on the board of the Authority as a member. Barrister Essien bowed out of the Public Service of the Federation in October 2011 after 35 years of meritorious sevice. He is currently in Private Practice as a Legal Practitioner in Calabar, Cross River State as the managing Partner of Lex Arbitri Partners, a firm of Negotiators, Mediators, Arbitrators and Legal Practitioners. After retirement, he undertook Professional Courses in Negotiation, Mediation ass well as Arbitration, he took and passed the requisite Professional Examinations and is now a professional Negotiator as well as Member of the prestigious and globally recognized Chartered Institute of Arbitrators(UK), Nigerian Branch. As evidenced above, Barrister Essien has over three decades of work experience with proven leadership ability at executive management and Board levels in both Private and Public Sectors. He started his working life at the lower rung and through determination, hard work, faith, personal initiative and courage steadily and carefully rose through the ranks, educating himself along the way, to retire at the peak as the Managing Director of the Cross River Basin Development Authority. As a member of five professional groups, he is a professional to the core. The above Situations afforded him the greatest opportunities to meet, mingle, share, gain and glean experience and lessons from all manners of people within and outside Nigeria as well as from Jobs handled or supervised over the years.
Biographical record
- Title
- Mr
- Surname
- ETUKUDO
- First Name
- Essien Essien
- Gender
- Male
- Source of Publication
- NIBC Who's Who (3rd Edition)
- Date of Birth
- August 22, 1953
- Status
- Alive
- State of Origin
- Akwa Ibom
- Place of Birth
- Ikot Ibiok, Eket
- Father's Status
- N/A
- Mother's Status
- N/A
- Marital Status
- Married
- Name of Spouse
- Mrs. Rosemaria
Essien Essien - Number of Children (Male)
- 3
- Number of Children ( Female)
- 1
- Profession
- Journalist
Lawyer - Education Level
- Tertiary
- Schools Attended with Dates
- Qua Iboe Mission Primary School, IkotIbiok, Eket,1960-1963; St. Charles(RCM) School, Old Umuahia, Umuahia, 1964-1966; Methodist Secondary School,Oboro, Umuahia,1967; Government Secondary School, Eket 1968-1972; Nigerian Institute of Journalism,Lagos 1974-1976; University of Calabar, Calabar 1987-1992; Nigerian Law School, Lagos January 1993-November 1993
- Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional Qualifications
- - Member, Nigeria Bar Association;
- Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United kingdom), Nigeria Branch(CIArb);
- Member, Association of Professional Negotiator and Mediators(APNM);
- Member, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations(NIPR);
- Member, Nigerian Union of Journalists(NUJ) - Present Appointment
- Managing Partner of Lex Arbitri Partners
- Previous Appointments
- Information Assistant, South Eastern State, Ministry of Information,1974;
Reporter, CRS Newspaper Corporation(Nigerian Chronicle),1974
Reporter/Sub-Editor, Daily Times(Nig) Limited, 1976;
Chief Sub-Editor, Columnist, CRS Newspaper corporation (Nigerian Chronicle),1976;
Senior Public Relations Officer, Cross River Basin Development Authority,1980;
Principal Public Relations Officer, Cross River Basin Development Authority,1983;
Assistant Chief Public Relations Officer, Cross River Basin Development Authority,1986;
Secretary/Legal Adviser, Cross River Basin Development Authority,2000;
Assistant General Manager(Administration and Finance) Cross River Basin Development Authority,15/04/04-03/01/11;
Managing Director, 04/01/2011-30/01/2011
- Have you ever been a member of any political party?
- N/A
- Hobbies
- - Reading;
- Making Friends;
- Football;
- Travelling;
- Playing Squash.
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