UNN Appoints Prof. Nwachukwu as DVC UNEC

A professor of Human Physiology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Daniel Nwachukwu, is now the new deputy vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC).

A statement from the institution said Nwachukwu emerged victorious in a keenly organised election supervised by a team of university officials following the expiration of the tenure of his predecessor, Prof. Edith Nwosu, who served for two tenures.

Nwachukwu, who hails from Okposi-Okwu in Ebonyi, attended the Government Secondary School in the town and later concluded at the Federal School of Arts and Science, Suleja, Niger State, in 1988.

And with the ambition to achieve greatness in academics, young Daniel proceeded to the University of Lagos for his first degree in Human Physiology in 1995 and later moved to the University of Benin for his master’s degree in 1997 and PhD in 2012.

Nwachukwu joined UNN as lecturer II in 1999 and rose to the highest academic status of professor in 2016.

Before his present appointment, Nwachukwu was the head of the Department of Physiology and dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences at UNN. He is the first DVC UNEC to come from Ebonyi.