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EZE
Chukwudi
Oliver Mojibola
Chukwudi Oliver Mojibola Eze, attended high school at St. Gregory’s College, Lagos, with a Catholic Secretariat scholarship. He graduated in Division One before proceeding to Vassar College in New York with an American Scholarship. There he graduated with triple honours – Departmental Honours, General Honours and Phi Beta Kappa, with a distinction in his undergraduate thesis.
He returned to Nigeria for National Youth Service Corps, in Kano State where he was made a Squad Leader. He later won the NYSC Chairman’s merit award for exemplary youth leadership qualities, before receiving a Federal Government Scholarship to Columbia University for his Master’s degree in Architecture. There, he received the William Kinne Award. He studied Computer Science and Management at the University of Lagos and Immigration Law as a Canadian scholar at Humber College, graduating with Distinctions, before studying Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. He earned a diploma in Theology and was ordained into the Ministry of the RCCG, where he rose to Honorary National Elder.
As a student, Eze was elected into the university senate where he became the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; was appointed Associate Editor of the Vassar Chronicles and worked as a student Correctional Volunteer at the Dutchess County jail in Poughkeepie, New York. Later, he was elected the African Students’ Representative to the International House at Columbia University. His exemplary work as a Correctional Volunteer, with a First Class Degree, led to his appointment as Project Coordinator of Project Upward Bound in New York, for the summer of 1978, by the American government. He is a recipient of the Ontario Legislative Assembly Award in Canada, from MPP Amrit Mangat, for “your hardwork, dedication, community spirit, and for making a positive difference in our constituency”, on August 7, 2014.
Eze is the designer of Africa’s first Presidential library, the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), in Abeokuta; and a design team member of the Enyimba Economic City in Abia State. He was appointed the chairman of the Redemption Camp Development Committee with landmark achievements in securing land expansion and the first Certificate of Occupancy, the first water borehole and the first telecom link. He was appointed to head the RCCG’s first respondents relief team to the Ikeja Military Cantonment, following devastating bomb explosions in January, 2002. Eze led the RCCG youths’ rescue mission from drugs and crime, at the Bar Beach, Lagos, which ThisDay Newspaper of February 18, 1999, page 7, described as impactful. He initiated and coordinated a successful RCCG Great Commission church planting campaign into rural communities, enabling rapid horizontal mission expansions. He was also the Venue Preparation Committee Chairman for RCCG Lekki ’98, historic international event in Lagos, amongst others.
Eze is a past member of the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs, the Nigerian Institute of Management, the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (IISS); a Fellow of the 21st century Trust of London and a news and current affairs analyst for the Nigerian Television Authority and of Radio Nigeria. He was nominated and sponsored by organisations like the African Leadership Forum, to participate in international conferences dealing with global issues of peace and development. He initiated and worked with the Catholic archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Olubumi Okogie, in a 10-month secret negotiation to peacefully resolve the intractable Fidelity Bank board crisis, saving it from imminent collapse.
Eze was an executive member of the Ogun State government’s accelerated economic transformation team: the Ogun State Infrastructure Development Committee (OSIDEC). And as the PTA chairman for a record of 5 years, he successfully helped to transform the Nigeria-Turkish International College in Abuja into one of the best secondary schools in Nigeria, receiving the schools award as a result. He was the Director of planning for five years of the Nigeria-China Business Council in Abuja. Eze is a member of the Amokwe Development Foundation Scholarship Board and is actively engaged with architectural designs and projects development.
Eze received the Enugu state government’s award for Strategic Service and won a shortlist of the 1993 African Guardian magazine’s international essay competition: To Make Nigeria Safe for Democracy. He is a frequent op-ed contributor to Nigeria’s major newspapers. Eze is a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors, the Canadian Authors Association and serves on the Advisory board of the Abuja Literary Society. He is the author of five books. The Positive Dream Actualizer, 1996; Yes Lord, 2002; Uchechi- The Triumph of Love 2011; Leadership Stories of Mother Hen, 2006 and expanded edition, 2012; The Return of Half- Something (2018) and led in producing ANA Abuja Anthology: Flights of Imagination, 2024.
His literary work has been shortlisted for the following awards: The Association of Nigerian Authors literary Prize 2018, the NLNG Nigerian Prize for Literature 2021 and the Chinua Achebe’s Literary Prize 2021. Eze is a Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors, and once served as the chairman of the Lands Committee, before his election as a two-term Chairman (2023-2027) of the Association’s Abuja Chapter, where his leadership has led to the fastest growth in the Chapter’s history. His children are authors and in diverse fields as medicine, pharmacy, law and ICT.
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