{"id":14594,"date":"2017-03-09T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14594"},"modified":"2017-05-11T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:32:39","slug":"onweagba-prof-anthony-emereuwaonu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onweagba-prof-anthony-emereuwaonu\/","title":{"rendered":"ONWEAGBA, Prof. Anthony Emereuwaonu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Thursday (Afo) 26&#8242;&#8221; June, 1947 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Oru East Village\/Town: Isieke Awo-Omamma Contact Address: Faculty of Agriculture &#038; Veterinary Medicine Imo State Universitv, Owerri mm ProfessorAnthony Emcreuwaonu Onweagba vvas born in Isieke Awo-Omamma town in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State on June 26&#8243;&#8216; 1947. He iscurrently a professor ofAgricultural Extension at the Faculty ofAgriculture and Veterinary Medicine. Imo State University. Owerri. Education St. Patrick&#8217;s School Awo-Omamma 1952 1958 \u2022 Community Grammar School Awo-Omamma 1959 1963 WASC Trinity High School Oguta for Higher School ( A-Levels) University of Nigeria Nsukka B.Sc Hons Agricultural Economics\/Extension 1973 University of Florida. Gainesville Florida. M.Sc in Journalism and Mass Communication 1979 University of Nigeria Nsukka PhD Agricultural Extension 1989 Jobs and Posts Held Several positions as a University Teacher, administrative andresearch head in government parastatals and other Federal Research Institute \u2022 Officer In charge. Extension Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture Zonkwa Station, in the then Norlh Central State 1973 1974 as a member of the NYSC Higher Technical Officer and Head Communications Unit. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) 1974 1978 Research OfficerGrade I. (Socioeconomic\/Extension Research,) Forestry Research Institute (FRIN) 1979 1981 Senior Research Officer ( Socio-economic\/Extension Research) Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) 1982- 1983 Lecturer1, Michael Okpara College of Agriculture Umuagvvo, ( Extension Communication) 1983 1986 Rector\/ChiefExecutive of the College of Agriculture Umuagvvo 1994 1996 Served as Chairmanof many Boards at the Collegeas the Rector\/Chief Executive Professor and Dean . Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine , Imo State University . Owerri. 1999- date \u2022 Successful supervised postgraduate research projects, post-graduate diploma and MSc\/PhD projects in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development. \u2022 Member of Imo State Universily Senate since 1996 dale National and International Posts Outside the University \u2022 Co-ordinator. Outreach Programme on Agricultural Extension Systems (Tropical Extension Systems) United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA) and Institute of Food and Agricultural Science ( IFAS) University of Florida \u2022 Co-ordinator. Studies in African Languages. Institute of African Languages University of Florida Gainesville. 1977 1980 \u2022 Administrative Secretary. Society of Technical Communication. Florida Chapter 1977 980 \u2022 Chairman. Organising Committee for a two week-training Programme on Scientific Editing for Science Editors in Africa jointly sponsored by the University of lbadan\/lnlernalional Institute of Tropical Agriculture 1977 \u2022 Chairman. Sub-committee on International Training Workshop for Agricultural Communicators and Information Managers, 1988 \u2022 Visiting Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Agricultural Economics\/Extension. School of Agriculture and Technology. Federal University of Technology ( FUTO) Owerri, 1993 1994 and 1998 date \u2022 Visiting Scholar. Michigan State University . East Lansing. Michigan USA 1992 1993 \u2022 Visiting Professor. College of Agricultural Economics. Rural Sociology and Extension. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture. Umudike. Umuahia 1999 till date \u2022 External Examiner. Higher Degree Examinations to University of Nigeria Nsukka 1998 date \u2022 External Examiner. Higher Degree Examinations to Federal University of Technology Owerri 1999 dale Publications \u2022 Published extensively in many journals, and presented many papers al conferences, workshops; none listed here. .Membership of Learned Associations \u2022 Fellow . Institute of Sales Management of Nigeria (FISMN) \u2022 Member. West African Farming Systems Research Network ( WAFSRN) \u2022 Member. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Network on Agricultural Administration Research and Extension (ii) Irrigation Managemenl (socio-economic aspect) \u2022 Member. FUTO Research Team on Small Scale Technology Adoption \u2022 Life Member. Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria \u2022 Member. Nigeria Audio- Visual Association \u2022 Member. Nigeria Guild of Agricultural Communicators \u2022 Member. Society for Scholarly Publishing. USA \u2022 Member. Society for Technical Communication. USA \u2022 Member. International Union ofForestry Research Organisation (IUFRO) Working Group (56.08) on applying research results. \u2022 Member. Forestry Association of Nigeria \u2022 Member Nigeria Participatory Rural Appraisal Network ( NIPRANET) Local Contributions to Development \u2022 Chairman. Academic Staff Union. Michael Okpara College of Agriculture Umuagvvo \u2022 Chairman. Awo-Omamma Water Project \u2022 Chairman, Okparaku Development Union \u2022 Chairman, Awo-Omamma Progressive Union Educational Foundation Committee \u2022 Secretary. Awo-Omamma Town Union \u2022 Patron. Awo-Omamma Students Union \u2022 Guest Lecturer at a Colloquium on &#8216; Local Government Administration in Nigeria&#8221; organized by the Central Awo Omamma Patriotic Union 1995 He is happily married and has live children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2410],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14594","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14594","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20155,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14594\/revisions\/20155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}