Chioma Obianuju Ojukwu, associate professor, now ICAN chairman for newly created Obio/Akpor District & Society in Rivers State
Chioma Obianuju Ojukwu, a female lecturer in the University of Port Harcourt has been installed as the pioneer chairman of the latest district of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in Rivers State, the Obio/Akpor & District..
This is as Davidson Alaribe, the 60th national president of ICAN, who installed Ojukwu, has made a case for the boy-child, saying national attention should also go to boys to avoid a future of weak men. He said number of women is getting higher than that of the men in ICAN, and thus urged the new chairman (a female) to also spare some energy to recruit young boys in the Catch Them Young scheme of ICAN.
Ojukwu, described as an accountant that is passionate about impacting knowledge and skills to students, fresh graduates, job seekers, employees and employers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and others is said to be a child of providence, blessed with uncommon grace and mercies of God.
She is indicated to have been chosen as pioneer chairman of Obio/Akpor & District to promote and champion the creation of a new district for the renowned Institute in the treasure base of the nation.
The brochure of the event said: “She is an alumnus of the prestigious Constitution Crescent Primary School, Aba, Abia State, and Owerri Girls Secondary School in Owerri in Imo State, passing all her school and national examinations excellently including Book Keeping and Accounts. She graduated as the best in her first degree in Abia State University, both in her Department of Accounting and her Faculty of Business Administration in 2000.
“She obtained her second degree (MBA Accounting); third degree M.Sc (Accounting) and fourth degree (PhD Accounting) in the University of Port Harcourt where she exhibited academic excellence by having a 5.0 CGPA result.”
The lecturer is also an author of many books (both hard copy and online editions). The Associate professor joined the Uniport as a senior internal auditor in 2013 before converting to the academic department as a lecturer in 2019, skipping the prospect of becoming the Chief Internal Auditor by just the very next promotion.
She was indicated as a member of ICAN after qualifying in the November diet of 2006. She made fellow in 2019. She is also a fellow of the Institute of Policy Management Development (PMD), and Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CITN), and Associate member of the Nigerian Accounting Association (NAA).
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