Ifeanyi Ossai | |
|---|---|
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| Deputy Governor of Enugu State | |
| Assumed office 29 May 2023 | |
| Governor | Peter Mbah |
| Preceded by | Cecelia Ezeilo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Udenu,Enugu |
| Political party | Peoples Democratic Party |
Ifeanyi Ossai is a Nigerian politician,lawyer and entrepreneur,who serves as the current deputy governor of Enugu State. [1] [2] [3]
Ossai is a native of Udenu local government area and a member of Nigerian Bar Association. [4]
Nsukka is a town and a Local Government Area in Enugu State,Nigeria. Nsukka shares a common border as a town with Edem,Opi,Ede-Oballa,and Obimo.
Enugu verbally pronounced as "Enụgwụ" by the igbo indigenes is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria,bordered to the north by the states of Benue and Kogi,Ebonyi State to the east and southeast,Abia State to the south,and Anambra State to the west. The state takes its name from its capital and largest city,Enugu. The city acquired township status in 1917 and was called Enugwu-Ngwo. Due to the rapid expansion towards areas owned by other indigenous communities,it was renamed Enugu in 1928.
The Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) is a university in Nigeria that was founded as Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH) on 30 July 1980,by the Executive Governor of Anambra State,Chief Dr Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo. The creation of Enugu State out of Anambra State in 1991 by the then Military President General Ibrahim Gbadamasi Babangida,transformed ASUTECH into Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
Udenu is a Local Government Area of Enugu State,Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Obollo-Afor on the A3 highway.
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Lolo Cecilia Ezeilo is a Nigerian politician,lawyer,philanthropist and television presenter,who served as Deputy Governor of Enugu State from May 2015 to May 2023.
Samuel Maduka Onyishi was born in Nsukka,Enugu State,in November 1963 and is business from Enugu Northern extraction. Owing to the loss of his father in his first year in secondary school,an incidence that forced him to assume the role of pseudo breadwinner to his family consisting of his widowed mother and siblings. Dr. Sam Onyishi,as he is mostly called,attended the Enugu Road Primary School,Nsukka from 1971 to 1976 then was admitted into Bubendorf Grammar School,Adazi,in the present day Anambra State. He contemplated tearing his certificate,since education seemed to mean nothing then given his reality. But an encounter with a kinsman who was 2 years below him in primary school a few years later would make him change his view about education,he returned to school later in life. He got admission to do a Diploma Program at University of Nigeria,Nsukka,between 1993 –1996 and later,a degree program from 1996 –1999. He graduated with a Second Class Upper in Social works and Community development. He later got a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Entrepreneurship from the Institute for Transformative Thought and Learning in the Doctoral Research Centre of the University of Arizona,Phoenix,in the United States.
The 2019 Enugu State gubernatorial election was held on 9 March 2019. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who won his party (PDP) primaries unopposed,got re-elected for office,Choosing Hon Mrs Cecilia Ezeilo as his deputy.
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The 2023 Enugu State gubernatorial election took place on 18th March 2023,to elect the Governor of Enugu State,concurrent with elections to the Enugu State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election —which was postponed from its original 11 March date —was held three weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent PDP Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was term-limited and could seek re-election to a third term. Former commissioner Peter Mbah retained the governorship for the PDP by a margin of less than 1% —3,343 votes —over the first runner-up,LP nominee Chijioke Edeoga.
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