Away from the recent list of properties in the USA, UAE, and UK linked to senator Ike Ekeweremadu, the Deputy Senate president (DSP) of the upper National Assembly; He is one of the best lawmakers Nigeria ever produced.
The Enugu state born politician is not new to Nigeria’s political terrain. Having served at different levels of Government as head of his age grade in his community, local government chairman; Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Enugu State government; and he is currently serving a fourth term as senator and third term as Deputy Senate President of the red chambers.
For his immense contribution to education, and politics; thus making him the only Nigerian to have served as the speaker of the ECOWAS parliament; The Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, has appointed Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a Full Visiting Professor and Senior Mentoring Scholar of E-Governance and Strategic Government Studies.
Ekeweremadu is expected to mentor Junior lecturers, PhD students, as well as take a lead in advising the university’s research centre on academic issues related to e-Governance and Strategic Government Studies in Africa. The southern university described senator Ike as “a motivation to the Nigerian youths, both at home and in the diaspora,” predicted his appointment on his intellectualism and long experience in leadership for Nigeria and Africa.
It might interest you to know that; the DSP is a senior legal practitioner and former lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC), Ekweremadu holds a PhD in Law and has attended several executive strategic leadership training at Harvard and Oxford University.
