Date of Birth: Monday (Orie) 6,h .June, 1949 State of Origin: Anambra Local Government Area: Njikoka Village/Town: Abba-Okpulu Orji Contact Address: Imperial Vocational Training Institute 17, Ojerinde St. Akute, off Ishashi Road Ogun State. Contact Telephone: 234-8033046009 Lady Augusta Uzoamaka Ozumba is the Assistant Director (Food Processing and Analytical Division.) with the Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO). Oshodi Lagos. She came up lo assume this post through hard work and proven integrity and efficiency. Education • Uzii Layout Primary School Owerri First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) 1961 • Anglican Girls Grammar School Avvkunanaw Enugu WASC 1966 • Howard University Washington DC. USA. B.Sc and M.Sc 1975 and 1977 respectively Membership in Professional Associations • Member. Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology • Member. Nutrition Society of Nigeria • Member. Home Economics Association of Nigeria • Member. Alphi-phi Chapter of Omicron • Member. National Society of Home Economics. USA • Listed in American Biographical Institute as an outstanding Female Executive (ABI USA) 2001 Employment History and Job Experience •' Research Officer Grade I. FIIRO 1978 • Currently . The Assistant Director at FIIRO • She has worked in the following areas: Production of weaning foods from local raw materials. Production of jams and marmalades from tropical fruits. Development of High Protein Foods from vegetable source. Nutritional evaluation of foods sensory evaluation. Publications • CharacterizationofCommon Nigerian Cowpea ( Vigna Unguicalata L. AValp Varieties) co-written with Olapade A A. Okafor G.I. and Olatunji O. Journal of Food Engineering 55,pp 101 -105 ( 2002) • Contaminants and defects in Nigerian Cowpeas Tropical Science. 43. 4. pp 171 173 • Quality Evaluation of mushroom soup mixes developed from Nigerian edible pheurotus Pulmonarms Mushroom powder. Accepted on 12"' January. 2004 • Rheologicalproperties and consumer acceptance ofmoin main premix. Nigerian Food Journal. Accepted 21"' August 2004 Conferences attended recently • Improving the weaning foods ofthe rural and low income Nigerian child: Proceedings of the 2'"' National AERLS Home Economics Workshop on Weaning Foods. • UNICEF/NAERLS Zaria Nigeria and Quality Assurance Problemsof Indigenous food industries in Nigeria. • Appendix to training manual of management of quality control in the food industry • A Group training course by UNIDO. Hungarian Office of Standardization. Budapest. IIungary. 158 163 Awards and Honours • Lady Augusta Ozumba is honoured by the Anglican Church in Nigeria with the Eminent Knighthood ofthe Order of St Paul- (KSP) • She is also a Provincial Member ofthe Mothers Union and Women's Guild ofthe Communion. Her advice to the Youths "slop being too much money minded because this reduces the desire to have quality education and this will produce negative effect in future unless the trend is reversed". To the Igbo Leadership, she says, "the Igbo must learn to choose leaders like oilier tribes. We must learn to have a united from and embrace God in what we are doing. We should allow God to lead us. We are allscattered each to his own way and this isaffecting us ". She further comments, "the Igho are becoming rather very selfish and ibis was not ihe case before. We are fast learning from other tribes very negative habits. Now there isageneral fear in misting people. We must go hack lothe good ways we used lo have, fear God. We need to have Igbo prayer days, when Igbo people should gather and pray for the Igbo nation. We need God now more than ever before. It will change us. Other tribes respect their leaders but Igbo youths have lost this culture andwe need logo back lo respecting age again andnot money ". She is happily married.
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