{"id":10926,"date":"2017-02-18T00:58:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T23:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=10926"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:46:49","slug":"gbozurike-uzo-matthias","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gbozurike-uzo-matthias\/","title":{"rendered":"GBOZURIKE, Uzo Matthias"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: Tuesday (Afo) 24′” February, 1942 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Orsu Contact Address: 18, Igbozurike Road, Akwakuma. Owerri North Local Government Area. Outreach & Consultancy Services (OCS) Building, Imo State University. Owerri. Contact Telephone: 234-8033273814 Email Address: ocsimsufa ureach.com Uzozurike2002@yahoo.com Bom on Tuesday (Afo) 24″‘ February. 1942 to late Hon A.A. Igbozurike and Lolo N. Igbozurike. Professor Uzo M. Igbozurike hails from Okvvu- Amaraihe autonomous community, formerly part of Awo-ldemmili Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State. Schools Attended \u2022 St. Dominic’s School Awo-ldemmiri \u2022 Abbot Secondary School Ihiala \u2022 School ofAgriculture Umudike, \u2022 University ofNigeria Nsukka, B.Sc. ( lions) 1965. Dip in National Development. 1967 \u2022 University of Wisconsin, M.Sc, 1969 \u2022 University ol”Florida. PhD Geography. 1971 Career Journey \u2022 Lecturer-University ofNigeria Nsukka \u2022 Senior Lecturer- University ofNigeria Nsukka \u2022 Associate Professor. University ofNigeria Nsukka \u2022 Professor. 1983 Among are University Posts and Responsibilities and Services to the World \u2022 Ilead . Dept of Geography University ofNigeria \u2022 Dean . Faculty of Environmental Sciences 1987 1991;1992- 1996 Dean College of Postgraduate Studies 1996, Imo State University \u2022 Administrator. Imo State University Owerri Outreach and Consultancy Services. (OCS) \u2022 Member. Imo State University Governing Council. \u2022 Member ol” the University Senate Committees and a Three Time Member of Imo Stale University Governing Council. Other Community Services \u2022 Chairman. Imo State Library Board \u2022 Chairman, Imo State Technical Committee on Erosion and Flood Control \u2022 Former Director. Nigerian Environmental Study\/Action Team (NEST) \u2022 One Time National President. Nigerian Geographical Association \u2022 Member. Nigeria National Atlas Committee \u2022 Member. Nigeria Participatory Rural Appraisal Network \u2022 Consultant to Local, State, and Federal Government as well as to the UNDP, The British Council and the World Bank on Soil Erosion, Flood Control. Population Matters, Rural Development and CommunilyAdministration \u2022 Two time chairman ofAwo-ldemmili Progressive Union. Owerri Branch \u2022 Member of Cabinet ol’Eze-Ukwu ofOkwu-Amarihe \u2022 Awarded many secondary and post-secondary schools scholarships to deserving children of the Community Publications He has edited and co-edited over 70 academic works, has 18 books and over 50 Journal articles in International and national journals. Five of his most recent books are \u2022 Agriculture at Crossroads: A Comment on Agricultural Ecology (1977) \u2022 Land Use and Conservation in Nigeria ( 1981) \u2022 Rural Nigeria: Development and Quality of Life ( 1981) \u2022 Soil Erosion Prevention and Control Manual ( 1983) \u2022 Perspectives in Environmental Management ( 1997) \u2022 Over 40 unpublished conference papers Awards and Prizes Tennessee-Nigeria Oil CompanyScholarship 1962 1964 Stickney Gardiner Academic Excellence Award 1967 1969 Profile recorded in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (USA.) \u2022 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals ol’the 20″‘ Century UK \u2022 Who’s Who in Nigeria \u2022 Ozo Title Holder of Awo-ldemmili with the title UGONNA \u2022 Merit Award for Excellence in Service from Orsu Local Government Council 2001 \u2022 Chieftaincy Title of ENYIOHA in 2004 Professor Igbozurike is a devout Catholic and iscommitted to the church in many ways. He is happily married to Bridget Nwakaego Igbozurike and they have live children- a medical doctor, an architect, a nurse, and a banker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10926","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10926"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}