ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Loading banners
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
AE-FUNAI 4th Vice Chancellor, Prof Daniel C Nwachukwu
By CHARLES IWUOHA
The Governing Council of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, lkwo Ebonyi State, has appointed a professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Daniel C. Nwachukwu, the 4th Vice-Chancellor of the university.
His appointment was announced on Saturday, December 20, 2025, after a painstaking and transparent process that involved over 40 seasoned professors.
Nwachukwu, who is a Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, was elected the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UNEC in 2023.
He had his first degree at the University of Lagos in Human Physiology in 1995 and later moved to the University of Benin for his master’s degree in 1997 and PhD in 2012.
Nwachukwu has had an illustrious career in the academia spanning over 26 years having joined the services of UNN as a lecturer in July 1999 and rose to the highest academic rank of a professor in 2016.
He hails from Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. He is married with children.
