Director’s Brief Profile (Professor Ngozi Anyikwa)
Professor Anyikwa is the Director of Chike Okoli Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State-Nigeria. Before assuming this position, she served in the capacities of Head, Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education; Sub-Dean, Faculty of Education; Coordinator, Post Graduate Diploma Programme and Coordinator, Guidance and Counseling Unit in the Department of Educational Foundations. Professor Anyikwa is a teacher and scholar of international repute, whose teaching and research has spanned many decades and continents. As full-time and visiting Scholar, she has taught in Nigeria and U. S. A., at graduate and undergraduate levels in Guidance and Counseling and Early Childhood and Primary Education. Her articles are widely published in national and international journals; including some book chapters. Professor Anyikwa has experience in governance to her credit having served as Commissioner for Ministries of Planning and Economic Development, Public Utilities and Rural Development and Youths and Sports, Imo State-Nigeria. She is currently a member of the 8th University Governing Council, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and a Consultant to the World Bank Country Office, Abuja-Nigeria on Social Protection and Labour.
Staff of COCES
The Centre has a Director who is in Charge of the Centre, ably assisted by two Deputy Directors in the day-to-day administration of the Centre. The list of staff of the Centre is tabulated below.
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Name
Designation
1
Prof. Ngozi E. Anyikwa
Director
2
Dr Jerry Emejulu
Deputy Director I
3
Dr. Ugochukwu C. Okonkwo
Deputy Director II
4
Mrs Blessing Ezeafulukwe
Deputy Registrar
5
Mr Emmanuel Onyebuchi Nwosu
Principal Assistant Registrar
6
Mr Francis Abum Ezenwaka
Principal Executive Officer I
7
Mrs Viola Uchenna Jibike
Assistant Registrar
8
Mr Anya Chinwendu Ogbonna
Technologist I
9
Mrs Nneka Frank-Obidike
Technologist II
10
Mrs Nkechi A. Okonkwo
Technologist II
11
Mrs Mavis Obianuju Kanu-Esimone
Technologist II
12
Mr Francis Okonkwo Ngwu
Transport Superintendent
13
Mrs Adaobi B. Achuke
Higher Executive Officer
14
Mrs Chinenye Chime Nwadike
Technologist II
15
Miss Lilian Chiamaka Chukwuma
Technologist II
16
Engr. Victor Okorie Ogbonna
Technologist II
17
Mrs Celestina Uloma Okuagba
Assistant Security Officer
18
Mrs Anastesia Nkiru Ekunno
Security Assistant
19
Mrs Gladys Amaka Ughanwa
Assistant Chief Clerical Officer
20
Mrs Peace Akudo Onuoha
Assistant Chief Clerical Officer
21
Miss Ngozi Gloria Okeke
Principal Library Assistant
22
Miss Onyebuchi Chinwe Okpara
Laboratory Supervisor
23
Miss Chigozie Christiana Nnadozie
Laboratory Supervisor
24
Mrs Nkiru Gladys Muoghalu-Patrick
Senior Laboratory Assistant
25
Mr Stephen Osita Ugwuanyi
Senior Craftsman
26
Mrs Ifeoma Fidelia Chibuzo
Laboratory Assistant
27
Mrs Benedeth Ngozi Okafor
Head Laboratory Attendant
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Beside the staff of the Centre, COCES has access to a pool of highly qualified experts and technologists from relevant disciplines in the University as well as associates from affiliated Institutes and Partners. The Centre also taps on Ad hoc basis, resource personnel with years of experience in the entrepreneurial ventures.