SitiTalk Winning Women
SitiTalkBlog salutes winning women who are achieving great heights in their careers and at the same time maintaining a wholesome life.
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Prof. Mrs. Anyakoha Elizabeth Ugonwa
The first Professor of Home Economics Education in Nigeria in 1995.
Professor Elizabeth Anyakoha graduated from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in 1979 as the best graduating student in the Department of Vocational Teacher Education (VTE) and Faculty of Education. As a graduate of Home Economics Education, she became one of the first group of Graduate Assistants to be employed in UNN in 1980.She obtained her M. Ed and Ph. D in 1982 and 1986 respectively in Curriculum Studies from UNN.
From Graduate Assistant she was appointed Lecturer II in 1986, became Lecturer 1 in 1988, and a Senior Lecturer in 1993. She became the first Professor of Home Economics Education in Nigeria in 1995. She served as Coordinator for Home Economics Education (1994 – 1997) and first female Head of Department of VTE (2000 – 2003). She has served and continues to serve in many UNN Committees. She renders different forms of services to public bodies. She has served as consultant to National Universities Commission (NUC), Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), National Council for Colleges of Education (NCCE), UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the World Bank. She was a member of the Governing Council of the Teachers Registration Council (TRC) of Nigeria. She is also a member of many national and international professional associations including, International Federation of Home Economics (IFHE). She has also served as external examiner for many institutions in Nigeria and Africa. Prof Anyakoha has successfully supervised 15 PhD Theses and 64 M. Ed projects and still counting. Elizabeth Anyakoha has developed curricula and instructional materials for Home Economics and other Vocational Education programmes at various levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary) in Nigeria. She has also successfully executed ten locally and internationally funded research projects. She has published two standard text books in Home Economics namely Home Management for Schools and Colleges, and Home Economics for Junior Secondary Schools. These are widely used in Nigerian schools and in some West African countries. She has also published 85 journal articles, 23 book chapters, 10 technical reports and edited six monographs. She has served and continues to serve as editor for many journals, attended 150 learned conferences and capacity building workshops both within and outside Nigeria.
Prof Anyakoha is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Home Economics Research, a recognized impact factor journal. She is also the founder of the Home Economics Research Association of Nigeria (HERAN) and Family and Child Development Centre. She is an ideator, a motivator and a mentor who has brought many a protégée to limelight.
Professor Anyakoha was the seventy-sixth Inaugural Lecturer of University of Nigeria Nsukka on June 27, 2013. The Lecture was on Advancing a Framework for Showcasing Family Concerns: Challenging the Challenges.
Prof Elizabeth Anyakoha is happily married to Professor Maduka Wilfred Anyakoha, a retired University Librarian and Professor of Physics. They have five children and seven grandchildren.
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Photo credit: Home Economics Research Association of Nigeria
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Prof Francisca Nneka Okeke
Prof Francisca Nneka Okeke is a Professor of Physics. Her areas of research interest include; Geomagnetism, atmospheric Physics and climate variability. She teaches and supervises many PhD and MSc students. She has successfully supervised 12 PhD and about 28 MSc students. She is still currently supervising many PhD and MSc students. She published many papers in international reputable journals. Her dedicated and painstaking research over the past twenty-four years has resulted in her significant contributions in her area of geomagnetism and equatorial electrojet (EEJ) phenomena. Her academic contributions in this her areas of research are outstanding and have immensely helped in simplifying the understanding of rather complex phenomena. Consequently it has led to the better understanding of geomagnetic and EEJ phenomena. Her work has been recognized nationally and internationally. Her work on Daily variations of geomagnetic H, D and Z-fields at Equatorial latitudes, raised a controversy. She is a Laureate of L’Oreal –UNESCO Award for Women in Sciences for the Physical Science 2013. A fellow; African Academy of Science, Nigerian Academy of Science, Nigerian Institute of Physics and Japanese Society for Promotion of Science. She a member National Space Council of Nigeria. She is also member, Governing Council of ANSTI A versatile academic that is prominent in her pursuit, out of her hard work and perseverance she won the following awards: visiting research fellow, to University of Natal, Durban, South Africa in 1998, She won the fellowship international Award; as (FJSPS) to University of Tokyo, Japan from 1999-2000, Visiting Assoc. to CPTEC Brazil, Research visits to: Harvard Smithsonian Centre, Cambridge, USA, 2004, Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA, 2003, etc. She was the first woman to Head of Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2003 to 2006. She was again the first female Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2008 to 2010. The first woman Indigenous Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the first Woman Professor of physics in the Eastern part of Nigeria. One of her Female PhD product won the recent AU-TWAS young scientist Award of 2010. She has contributed immensely to the development of physics at both secondary and tertiary levels in Nigeria and has conducted many workshops. She has written a number of Physics text books and articles that have enhanced the teaching and learning of Physics at both secondary and tertiary levels in Nigeria. She has written many articles that have encouraged girls/Women in reading Physics in Nigeria/Africa at Large.
Professor of Physics, Fransisca Okeke, Clinches the 2013 L’Oreal – UNESCO Women In Science Award for Africa & Arab States,
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Professor Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike
Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She holds a doctorate (PhD) in Agricultural and natural Resources Economics, and specialized in Agricultural Finance and Project Analysis. Professor Achike has attended several training courses on quantitative and qualitative techniques of analysis, gender, poverty, policy and other key development issues organized by different organizations. In particular, she has received training at the CODESRIA Gender Institute, Dakar-Sengal, and the Social Science Academy of Nigeria Gender Institute. She was trained on Time Series Econometrics and Game Theory techniques by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) network. Furthermore, she was trained on Poverty Mapping by the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) network in Manila, Philippines. Professor Achike has served as Consultant and Trainer in many gender evaluation projects, mainstreaming and training activities at both local and international levels. She has also conducted baseline studies for many local and international organizations.
Currently, she is holding the following positions: Director, African Climate Change Adaptation Initiative (ACCAI) at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Team Leader, Community Based Poverty Monitoring System (CBMS), Nigeria; Coordinator, Agribusiness Development programme of the African Network for Agriculture, Agro forestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE); and Coordinator, Climate Change Project of the African Women in Science and Technology (AWFST), a programme of the African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS).
Professor Achike has many publications to her credit comprising journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, training manual and technical reports. She is a member of many local and international professional bodies as well as Associate Fellow of the African Institute for Applied Economics. Professor Achike was the Head of Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2005-2007), and also a global faculty member of the trade policy training in Africa (trapca). She has won many competitive local and international research grants and has successfully completed them. At present, she is Consultant for a rice value-chain and aflasafe marketing studies in Nigeria as well as for an institutionally affiliated agribusiness project of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, both of which are still on-going.
Professor Achike is conversant with the terrain of rural Nigeria where she has carried out studies on gender, conflict, value chain, agribusiness, poverty, etc in almost all the geopolitical zones.
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