Charles Odu Ogbaekirigwe

Lecturer I

First Name Charles
Middle Name Odu
Surname Ogbaekirigwe

Work Information

Department Business administration
Faculty Management and social sciences

After serving for over twelve years as General Manager of a fast growth limited liability products and Chemicals manufacturing company, I rose to the rank of a Chief Administrative Officer in the Government parastatal where I was seconded to a World Bank Assisted Health – Sector Project. During this later position, I trained as a Procurement Specialist and had attended numerous trainings and international conferences of the World Bank both locally and abroad.

 

I joined the teaching staff of the Alex Ekwueme Federal university, Ndufu-Alike (here) and brought my private/ public sector entrepreneurial drive into pioneering the teaching and learning of Entrepreneurship and Business Management studies, till date. I was also appointed a member of the senate3 committee that established the AE-FUNAI CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.

 

I obtained and hold a B.Sc in Accountancy, a Master of Business in Management (MBA) and my M.Sc and Doctorate Degree ( PhD) are in Management, all from the UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA..

My research interest is in the area of Entrepreneurship and General Management, quality improvement and socio economic research / community capacity development via involvement in civil society and social work. I am a member of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and an Associate member of the World Business Institute based in Australia.

I was the immediate past Dean student affairs of the University in the 2017/2018 academic session, and currently, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERICES, AE-FUNAI.

Academic Qualifications

S/N Institutions attended degree(s) awarded year

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 UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA phd 2011

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 UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA MSC/MBA 2009

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 UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA BSC 2003

Teaching and research interests

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 ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES

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 ELEMENTS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Membership of professional bodies

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 INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS OF NIGERIA (iMCON)

Selected publications

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1. Title: Developing Entrepreneurial skills as Panacea for youth unemployment and ‘’Boko-Haram’’ insurgence in Nigeria.

Tokyo Business Research Conference 15th -16th December, 2014

Published online- ISBN 978-1-922069-67-2

 
2. Title:     Entrepreneurship Development through vocational Education training: issues and roles in skills acquisition and manpower development in developing country-co authored with Ugochukwu Okoli.

Published in Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research (JEPER). www.jiste.org – vol 1, No. 2, October 2014, Pp 151-157. Pensilvannia, USA.

 
3. Title:    Achieving successful Project Management through Total Quality Management (TQM) Process in Ebonyi State.

Published in – International Technology Research Journal (INTERJET) An inter-disciplinary Publication Vol. 3 No. 1, February 2015, ISSN: 2276 – 8890 Pp 97 – 107.

 
4 Title:      Critical Role of Entrepreneurship in poverty eradication, job creation, sustainable Development and Actualization of fight against terrorism in Developing countries.

Published in – Journal of Educational policy and Entrepreneurial Research

Vol. 2, No.9, September 2015, ISSN: 2408 – 770X (PRINT)

                                                          ISSN: 2408 – 6231 (ONLINE)

 
5. Title:  Impact of Management Consultancy in enhancing project implementation: The Nigerian experience.

Being paper presented at 30th International Business Research Conference held at Dubai – UAE, APRIL 20 – 22, 2015.

Published online – ISBN: 978 – 1 – 922069 – 74 – 0.

 

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 1.     Title:    Motivation as tool for influencing job performance of employees in small scale enterprises in Nigeria (South Eastern State – Ebonyi).

Reviewed and Presented at the

‘’Annual Bangkok Business and Social Science Research Conference’’ Thailand on June 3rd to 4th, 2016.

 

 

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 BOOK PUBLICATION:

1.     Country of

Publication:       Author                         Book title

Nigeria.   Ogbaekirigwe,C.O. Entrepreneurship:Business        Creation (E-Business) Growth (2016),

Published by:  Providence Press, Enugu.

ISBN 978 – 978 – 53946 – 0 – 3.

2.     Entrepreneurship  (Ogbaekirigwe C.O & Nwosu H. E) ISBN: 9789749879 – 8 – 1

 

 

 

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