In October 1956, he was admitted into the University College, Ibadan for a Science Degree. In 1957, he obtained the University College Schoolship after passing the Preliminary Examination (the equivalent of inter-B.sc) in one year, and joined the Department of Chemistry in 1960 with a First Class Honours, being the first Umuahia to get the B.Sc. Honours Degree in the UCI 4 years after the School Certificate Examination.

He did his Post-graduate Programme in Organic Chemistry at both the University College, Ibadan (an affiliate of the University of London) and the

University of Oxford and obtained the PhD in Organic Chemistry in march 1964, he however joined the Senior of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Ibadan in January 1964 after defending his PhD Thesis in December 1963.

The Nigerian political crisis of 1966 drove him to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in October 1966 from where he joined the Biafran scientists in July 1967 to assist the Biafran Armed Forces to prosecute the Nigerian Civil War from Biafran side. At the end of the Nigerian Civil War in January 1970, he rejoined the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and from there moved to the University of Lagos in October 1970.

In August 1975, he spent a Sabbatical leave at the National Cancer Research institute, Arizona State University in Tempe in the USA.
By 1977, he was promoted an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lagos from where he moved to the defunct Federal University of Technology, Makurdi in 1982 as a professor of Chemistry and then to the Defunct National Open University, Abuja.

In 1985, he joined the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru Jos as Senior Fellow and Head of the Science and Technology Unit of its Research Department. He stayed there until he retired from NIPSS, Kuru in 1994.

He then became the Special Adviser to the Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from 1994 to 1995 before he went fully into the Private Consultancy as a Science and Technology, Environmental and Drug Law control policy Consultant.

In this capacity he worked as a Consultant to various Organizations like the UNESCO, the US Drug Enforcement Agency of the US Embassy in Nigeria from 1995 to 2001.

From 2001 to date, he is a Freelance Writer in the general areas of Science and Technology Policies, Environmental Policy Matters and Drug Law Control Policies.

CNC Nweke - President, GCUOBA Lagos Branch

P.N. Obidike (Engr, Chief, Sir.)

Barr. Uchenna Chinenye Ihediwa

Barr. Theodore Anachuna Ezeobi (SAN)

Engr. David Faybian Ejikeme Obianyor

Engr. Dominic Okafor Igboesoka Ekesi

Ben Anene Osuno

Col. Anthony Okoro Eze

HRH, Prof. Laz Edward Nwanyelu Ekwueme

Engr. Bertram Ogugua Anyaoku

Surv. Damian Anaekperechi Nzenwa

Engr. Christopher Ekegbo Okoye

Engr. Joseph A. Iro

Engr. L.A.O Amu

Sir. Chike Onyeka

Chukwuemeka Ifezulike