Staff

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.

S/N

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

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.