Zaria, Kaduna State
OBI
Chike
Standard Six Certificate 1933 West African School Certificate 1939 • Bachelor of Science (B.SC) in Mathematics. 1944 Master of Science (M.SC) in Mathematics. 1946 • Doctorate Degree (Ph.D) in Mathematics. 1947-1950
- Married
Appointed Lecturer Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan, 1959-62;
associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Lagos, 1970;
Professor of Mathematics, University of Lagos, 1971-85;
Dean, School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Lagos, 1971-73; Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University of Lagos, 1971-77;
acting Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, 1981-82;
Emeritus Professor of the University of Lagos, since October 1985;
Visiting Professor,’ University of Jos, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Brown University, Rhode Island and Mathematics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Science;
member, National Revenue Mobilization Commission, March 1988;
– Fellow Nigerian Academy of Science; Science Association of Nigeria; Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society and member of the Mathematical Association
Former Secretary-General and leader of the Dynamic Party 1951- 56 when all political parties were banned in Nigeria
– Member, Royal Overseas League;
– Member Mathematical Association of Nigeria,
– Centenary Award
– Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON),
Recipient of the 1985 Sigvard Eklund Prize of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, November 1986;
Several papers on non-lineer differential Equations and Our struggle Part II, Pacific Printers, 1962;
A political analysis; Military History: Life of social insects; Cosmology Comparative Religion; Clubs and other Associations:
solved ‘Formats’ last Theorem, (361-year-old mathematical puzzle), August, 1999;
1. Member, Island Club;
2. Agbalanze society
Member for Onitsha Urban in the Federal Parliament of. Nigeria – March 1960 – November 1961; Member for Onitsha Urban East in tiie Eastern House of Assembly, November 1961 – June 1966; When all Legislatures were banned, founder of the Committee for the Propagation of Patriotism; He is a Catholic but not a religious fanatic, hates oppression and exploitation.
After Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Obi was elected a legislator in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.
In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with treason in a shadowy trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, Obafemi Awolowo, of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for lack of evidence.
When the Civil War broke out in 1966, Obi pitched his tent with the Biafran side, working for the rebel leader Odemegwu Ojukwu.
After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the University of Lagos where he quickly rose to the senior academic role of a professor. But for a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission, he was a university teacher until his retirement as a an Emeritus Professor in 1985.
He left Lagos to return to his root in the city of Onitsha, establishing the Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies. In 1997, it was from the institute that he worked unaided with modern technologies to solve the four-century old mathematical puzzle.
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