He thus enterd the college in September1952 as a resident of Niger House. While at Umuahia, he was a House perfect , was active in sports and was the captain of the college Lawn Tennis team. He did his Cambridge School Certificate examinations in 1957 and came out in Grade 1 and was in the pioneer set that did Higher School at the college. He did the Cambridge Higher School Certificate examination in December 1959.

He passed the Cambridge Higher School Certificate examinatios and obtained direct entry admission to the University of Ibadan to do an Honours Degree in Chemistry. He thus entered the University of Ibadan in October 1960 as an Eastern Region Scholar.

At University apart from academics, he was actively involved in photography and won some prizes for excellent photographs taken by him. In sports he had his colours in Lawn Tennis and in his final year was the Captain of the University Lawn Tennis team. He graduated from the University in 1963 with a BSc. 1st Class Honours Degree in Chemistry. We were the last set to the University of London degree at Ibadan, so our degrees were actually University of London Degrees.

He shocked his lecturers and professors at the university by going to work for an Insurance company at Enugu on leaving the University. He aslo did not take up an offer for a job from the Shell Petroleum Refining Company in Port Harcourt. Late in December 1963 he left Nigeria for the United Kingdom and the following month he regsitered as the first Nigerian student of the Institute of Actuaries. While studying for the Institute of Actuaries examination, he worked with different Actuarial comsulting firms and finally with the pearl Assurance Company. He represented his company in Lawn Tennis and played in the Insurance League. He obtained his Associateship of the Institute of Actuaries in 1974 and later that year was elected a fellow of The Royal Statistical Society.

In 1975 he decidedto come back to Nigeria after over 11 years sojourn in the United Kingdom. In May of that year he too up appointment as assistant General Manager (Life) of the Unity Life and Fire Insurance Company in Lagos. In 1978 he became General Manager/Chief Executive of that company and in 1988 he resigned from the company to set up Chike Oyeka and Company - a firm of Actarial and Employee Benefits consultants. During this period he was an Associate Lecturer in Actarial Science at the University of Lagos (1976 to 1984) and also a visiting Lecurer to the West African College of Insurance then in Monrovie, Liberia

In early 1989, he served in the Federal Government Technical Committee on the Commercialization and Privatization of the National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NICON) and Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation (Nigeria Re). In july 1989, he was appointed the first Executive Director (Special Risks) at the Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation.

In 2003, his firm Chike Oyeka and Company merged with another Nigerian Actuarial consulting firm - Ajibola Ogunshola and company to form First Actuaries Nigeria Limited. This firm was then taken over a year later by a South African Company - Alexander Forbes Consulting Actuaries Nigeria Limited of which he is a Dierctor . Since 2003, he was retired from active Actuarial practice.

He is currently a Director of Linkage Assurance Plc and Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc. In 1991, he was knighted by the Anglican bishop of the Niger Diocese as a knight of St. Christopher. For the past 41 years he has been married to Lady Oyeka and they have 3 children and 6 grand children.

CNC Nweke - President, GCUOBA Lagos Branch

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

Prof. Eugene Onyekwelu Arene

Barr. Uchenna Chinenye Ihediwa

Barr. Theodore Anachuna Ezeobi (SAN)

Engr. David Faybian Ejikeme Obianyor

Engr. Dominic Okafor Igboesoka Ekesi

Ben Anene Osuno

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

Col. Anthony Okoro Eze

Chukwuemeka Ifezulike