A professor of human physiology at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Daniel Nwachukwu, is now the new deputy vice chancellor of the Enugu Campus, UNEC, of the university.
A statement from the institution said that Prof. Nwachukwu emerged victorious in a keenly organized 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.
Prof Nwachukwu who hails from Okposi-Okwu in Ohazara Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, 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, he proceeded to the University of Lagos for his first degree in Human Physiology in 1995 and later moved to the University of Benin, UNIBEN, for his Masters degree in 1997 and Ph.D in 2012.
Prof Nwachukwu joined the UNN as Lecturer II in 1999 and rose to the highest academic status of Professor in 2016.
Before his present appointment, Prof Nwachukwu has held the positions of head of Department of Physiology and dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences in the university. He is the first DVC UNEC to come from Ebonyi State since the inception of the institution in 1960, 63 years ago.