Date of Birth: State of Origin: Local Government Area: Orsu Village\/Town: Contact Address: Contact Telephone: Saturday (Afo) 17\u2122 June, 1944 Imo Elugwu Okabia Ugwu’s Palace, Elugwu Okabia Autonomous Community Orsu LGA, Imo State 234-8033336442,234-83233444 HRH. Eze Professor Chuka Okonkwo. PhD. JP. MNAE was born on Saturday. (Afo) June 17. 1944. He has made a mark in academia as a very successful teacher, top university administrator, a prolific writer and publisher of top academic books, who had touched many lives for good in all his years of service as a teacher. Yet this humble teacher was not spared the burned of leadership by his community when they needed a humane and unassuming prince to ascend to the throne of their revered ancestral royal fathers. The dynamic university teacher had to obey the voice of the people to return to serve as the Royal Father of the community. Education \u2022 Government College Umuahia 1957 -1961 (was among the special brilliant students who were groomed lo lake Cambridge School Certificate in Class 4 instead of Class 5 for the normal students.) \u2022 Alvan Ikoku College of Education- among the pioneer set of students when the programme was introduced) University of Buffalo New York City, USA. Work Experience \u2022 Research Assistant on Language Education and Language Policy Studies at Buffalo Summer 1976 Spring 1978 \u2022 Consultant on African Studies Programme to the Buffalo Board of Education September 1877 May 1978. \u2022 Lecturer in Language Education Policy Studies at the State University College. Buffalo. New York September 1977 to May 1978 \u2022 Lecturer, Alvan Ikoku College of Education Owerri. July 1978 July 1979 \u2022 Lecturer\/Professor of Education . Imo State University . Owerri August 1999 date \u2022 Royal Father and Traditional Ruler of Elugwu Okabia Autonomous Community and Member of Imo State House of Traditional Rulers ( Ndi Eze) Academic and Social Positions \u2022 Chairman. Research and Publications Committee AICE 1981 1995 \u2022 Member. Ceremonials Committee AICE 1979 1996 \u2022 Member Ceremonials Committee . Imo state University 2000 date Secretary. GCUOBA- Government College Umuahia Old Boys Association. Owerri Branch 1981 1985 \u2022 National Secretary. Umuhu Okabia Development Union 1985 1995 \u2022 Secretary General. Orlu Zuru Mee 1991 2002 \u2022 Director Umuhu Okabia Community Bank 1991 1995 Chairman Imo State Library Board 1986 1989 \u2022 Dean of Education AICE September 1991 August 1994. September 1998 December 1999 \u2022 Deputy Provost (Academic) AICE Owerri March 1996 August 1998 \u2022 Director. Centre for Continuing Education Programme ( ICEP) Imo State University September 2000 till date \u2022 Member. Secondary Education Management Board Imo State March 1993 August 1995 \u2022 Member. Board of Directors Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council NERDC March 1991 July 1995 \u2022 Member. Board of Directors. Imo Stale Sports Council January 1990 – December 1992 \u2022 Chairman. Poverty Alleviation Committee. Imo State February 2001 – December 2003 \u2022 A Justice of the Peace JP and the Traditional Ruler. Elugwu Okabia Autonomous Community with the Title. Eze Akariam N Ugwn 1 of Elugwu Okabia Contributions to Knowledge This include 23 articles in learned journals ( Nigeria and Overseas) Sixteen books authored, edited and co-edited some of which are: Primary Education in Nigeria: Issues and Administration. International University Press, 1991 Comparative Education, Central Books Publishers Ltd, 1992 Fundamental Concepts in Education. Totan Publishers Ltd. 1989 Teacher Education in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects. N. Cajec Publishers, 1996 The Teacher and Teaching Lemmy Graphic Press, 1997 Education for Self-Reliance and National Development NAEAP & FESTA Publishers, 1992 Sociology of Education for Nigeria Total PRECISION-Making. International Universities Press 1998 Functions of Language ( Versatile Publishers, 2003 Forty-Two Chapters in books authored, edited and co-edited by himself and in books edited by his colleagues in Nigeria. Overseas Forty six papers read at learned conferences, seminars and workshops Editor-in-Chief of two major journals- as well as an editorial adviser to many other journals: Two monographs- Language in African Education Published by the Council on International Education . Buffalo. New York 1979 and Mobilising the Rural Dwellers For Effective National Development- a Community of Friends First Annual Lecture Publication. 1987 His hobbies are Reading and Writing. <\/p>\n
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