Our October WIMTI Speaker, Prof Ogezi

 Our October WIMTI Speaker, Prof Ogezi

 

Prof. Agbaji Emmanuel OGEZI, BSc (ABU), PhD (Leeds), FGS, FNMGS voluntarily retired as the first Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)-endowed Chair Professor of Geology at the University of Jos in 2016, and is currently at the African Centre for Sustainable Environment and Resources Development (ACSERD), Jos.

Aged 74, he attended Government College Kaduna where he served as Headboy in 1965. He then moved on to Federal Government College, Warri in 1966 as part of the pioneer sixth form class. Prof. Ogezi then attended the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and the University of Leeds, UK, where he earned a PhD in Earth Science in 1977.

He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (FGS) as well as of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (FNMGS), among several other national and international learned societies and professional bodies in the geosciences, mining and metallurgy. Prof. Ogezi has consulted widely directly and indirectly in these fields for several Governments, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as for national and international bodies and companies, such as the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), etc on the Nigerian extractive industry, sustainable environment and development and related issues.

He has served on the Council of many regulatory and scientific bodies, such as the National Universities Commission (NUC), NMGS, and the Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG), where he also served as Acting Registrar during its inauguration in 2003. He has participated actively in many Federal Government committees, studies and reviews on the Nigerian extractive industry.

Prof.  Ogezi is widely travelled and published and his latest book, “Nigerian Tin and Associated Ores and Minerals: Nature, Geology, History, Exploration, Mining, Processing, Uses, Environment and Man”, was published by ACSERD in 2021. He is happily married to Eunice and has many biological and adopted children and grandchildren. His hobbies include sports, geotourism and the popularisation and application of geosciences and the extractive industry in mitigating human challenges.

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