{"id":16660,"date":"2017-03-20T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16660"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T17:14:19","slug":"nwaubani-okeehukwu-o","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwaubani-okeehukwu-o\/","title":{"rendered":"NWAUBANI, Okeehukwu O"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Thursday (Eke) 25&#8243;&#8216; May. 1961 State of Origin: Abia Local Government Area: Umuahia South Village\/Town: Eziama Ubakala Dr Okeehukwu Onyinye Nwaubani is an educational administrator and manager. He has been involved in running the administrative arm ofthe ministry and has made enormous contribution to the growth of education in different parts of Nigeria. Besides administration, Dr Nwaubani has equally made big contribution to teaching and research. He is in other words deeply involved in academia and education. He was born on May 25&#8243;&#8216;. 1961 to the family of Nwaubani of Eziama Ubakala. Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State Education \u2022 Udi Road Primary School Asata Enugu \u2022 Ibeku High School Umuahia \u2022 University of Nigeria Nsukka B.Ed Education\/History 1985 \u2022 University of Ibadan. Ibadan Nigeria. M.Ed. Teacher Education. Curriculum and Instruction \u2022 University of Lagos M.A . History 1994 \u2022 University of Ibadan. Ph D. Curriculum Studies 1996 Job Experience and Employment History \u2022 Education Officer, Kano State Ministry of Education Kano 1996 1999 Education Officer, Jemaco Educational Services, Lagos 1988 1989 Lecturer III. St. Augustine&#8217;s College of Education Akoka Lagos. 1989- 1993 \u2022 Promoted Lecturer II 1993- 1995. Lecturer I, 1995 1997 \u2022 Senior Lecturer 1997 2001 \u2022 Principal Lecturer, 2001- date. He is also the Dean. School of Arts and Social Sciences, Co-ordinator of Bachelor ol&#8221; Education Degree Programme and Head of Department of Social Studies. Publications \u2022 CitizenryEducation and Nigerian Culture 2000 \u2022 Set Differences in the Understanding of some value concepts in Social Studies.Journal of Social Studiesand PopulationEducation ( Special Education) pp 36 46. 1998 Improving Teacher Assessment of Non-cognitive Learning Outcomes in social studies. JOEND. 3. (I &#038; 2) 2000 \u2022 Effects of two modes of Instructional presentation on students&#8217; knowledge of value skills in social studies. AJC. 2002 \u2022 Standards in Social Studies teachers&#8217; preparation in Nigeria, issues, challenges and prospects.JOEND, 4. (vol. 1 &#038; 2) 2003 Effective Teaching Methods for pre-primary and primary school pupils in the Arts Related Studies. JOPES, 1. 2004 Awards and Prizes Certificates of Honour in 1999 and 2000 \u2022 NYSC Merit Award for meritorious service to the Nation 1986 \u2022 Best Graduating Student in History Education 1985 Recommended for participation in the Technical Aid Corp ( TAG) by the Federal Government to Jamaica Membership of Learned Societies \u2022 Member, social Studies Association of Nigeria \u2022 Member. Curriculum Organisation of Nigeria \u2022 Member. Social Studies Teachers Association. \u2022 Member. Teachers&#8217; Registration Council of Nigeria \u2022 Member. National Association of Professional Educators \u2022 Member\/Secretary General of the National Association of Educationists for National Development (NAEND) Society and Development \u2022 Member of Eziama Family Union Member. Ubakala Clan Union (Federated) \u2022 Patron. Abia\/lmo Students&#8221; Association of St Augustine&#8217;s College of Education Liaison Officer supervises the Youth Programme and Counselling. During the NYSC. supervised The Bichi Local Government Water Project. His role model is Chief Dr Alex Ekwueme for his humility and modesty. Dr Nwaubani is a strong Christian and is married with Children. His advice to the Youths is: &#8220;to be focused and regain confidence and strive fully to reclaim the rights of the Igbo &#8220;. For the Igbo Leaders: &#8220;they should be focused as well as mobilize Ohanaeze to unite Ndigbo &#8220;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16660","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16660","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}