Board of Governors

About Me

Professor Nath Chukwu Ohazurike is a distinguished academic with a number of academic honours and laurels, and an extensive list of academic and learned journals published in America, Europe, and Africa. He has supervised several students at both M.Sc and PhD levels, and had equally served as an external examiner at these levels for more than ten Nigerian Universities. He was appointed to the board on February 2010. Professor Ohazurike started his academic career at the Alvan Ikoku College of education, Owerri in 1980 were rose to the rank of Principal Lecturer and Coordinator of the Special Science Programme in 1993. He then joined the service of the Imo State University in 1996 as a Senior Lecturer, and rose to the rank of Professor in 2002. Till date, he has been a sitting member of the University’s Senate and the Chairman and member of a number of Senate Committees and Panels. He was also the pioneer Head of Department of Crop Science and Bio Technology from 2001-2007 and Coordinator of the University’s Endowment Fund Project from 2001-2007. He has served as consultant and Environmental adviser to Shell Petroleum Development Company (S.P.D.C). Professor Nath Ohazurike holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university. He also obtained both a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree and his Doctorate degree from the University of Port-Harcourt. He was the Dean of the Post Graduate Studies School of the Imo State University, and is currently the Dean of the same University’s Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. As an devoted catholic Christian, he is a Knight of St. Mulumba, Nigeria, and has been honoured by the Catholic Church in several circumstances..