{"id":8043,"date":"2018-03-08T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2018-03-08T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:18:03","slug":"us-university-appoints-ekweremadu-a-full-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8043","title":{"rendered":"US University Appoints Ekweremadu a Full Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Uche Anichukwu<\/strong>, Special Adviser (Media), Deputy President of the Senate<br \/>\nThe Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, USA, has appointed the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a Full Visiting Professor and Senior Mentoring Scholar of E-Governance and Strategic Government Studies.<br \/>\nEkweremadu, according to the appointment letter dated February 2018, is expected to mentor doctoral students, junior lecturers, as well as take a lead in advising the University\u2019s research centre on academic issues related to E-Governance and Strategic Government Studies.<br \/>\nThe university, which described the Senator as \u201ca motivation to the Nigerian youths, both at home and in diaspora\u201d, predicated his appointment on his intellectualism and long experience in leadership in Nigeria and Africa.<br \/>\nIt explained that its doctoral students and lecturers also have ambitions to serve in government and not just in the academia and would, therefore, benefit from his experience.<br \/>\nThe University\u2019s letter reads in part: \u201cSouthern University was founded in 1880 and has always been at the forefront of academic research, as well as mentoring of many from the black community in the USA.<br \/>\n\u201cLooking at your academic, administrative, and overall leadership in Nigeria and Africa, you fit perfectly in Southern University\u2019s goal to remain a leading research and teaching institution in the United States and beyond.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are excited to have you join our University and our Research Center. We believe the background you bring from your pool of experience will be most valuable to the University community as a whole.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is our fervent hope, sir, that you will accept this offer.<br \/>\n\u201cOnce again, congratulations, Professor Ike Ekweremadu\u201d.<br \/>\nA senior legal practitioner and former lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, UNEC, Ekweremadu holds Ph.D. in Law and has undergone executive strategic leadership trainings at the Harvard University and Oxford University.<br \/>\nThe Senator is an author of several books \u00a0and has delivered over 25 public lecturers, mainly on the subjects of good governance, constitution making, and the principles of federalism at both local and international fora such as the Osgood Hall Law School, York University, Ontario, Canada; Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA; Parliament of the United Kingdom; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Federal University of Technology, Minna; University of Ibadan; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka as well as several Commonwealth and ECOWAS fora.<br \/>\nEkweremadu has also held several leadership positions, including Local Government Council Chairman; Chief of Staff, Government House, Enugu; Secretary to the Government of Enugu State; and is currently serving a fourth term as Senator and third term as Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate.\u00a0 He is the only Nigerian that has serves as the Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament.<br \/>\nThe lawmaker is the founder of the Ikeoha Foundation, which bursary awards have supported over 3,172 youths through their university education, while 68 undergraduates are currently enjoying its full scholarship. Over 12,198 women and youths have also received basic education through the Ikeoha Foundation\u2019s 34 Adult Literacy Centres.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Uche Anichukwu, Special Adviser (Media), Deputy President of the Senate The Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, USA, has appointed the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a Full Visiting Professor and Senior Mentoring Scholar of E-Governance and Strategic Government Studies. Ekweremadu, according to the appointment letter dated February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}