PROFILE

Consulting medical and environmental practitioner. 25 years in the health and environmental fields.

 Qualifications Obtained

M. Phil (Environmental Management)

MB, B.Ch (Medicine)

Affiliations/Memberships of Professional Bodies

Registered, Nigerian Medical Council

Member, Nigerian Medical Association

President, Water Environment Association of Nigeria (WEAN)

Member, Water Environment Federation (WEF), U.S.A.

Brief Career History

2000 – present

Managing Consultant, Hospitalia Consultaire Limited -

Leadership of feasibility and design teams for health and environmental systems, project implementation supervision.

Consultant to the Federal Government of Nigeria (Federal Ministry of Environment and Ecological Fund Office) on Health, Safety, Pollution Control and Biomedical Waste Management.

Consultant to the Federal Ministry of Environment (Nigeria), on the Design, Development and Implementation of “Health Care Waste Management Plan”, “HealthCare Waste Management Guidelines”, and Healthcare Waste Management Policy for Nigeria

Consultant to the National Action Committee on Aids (NACA), for the Development of “Healthcare Waste Management Plan” for its operations.

Consultant to the Ecological Fund Office, The Presidency (Nigeria) for the “Nationwide Hospital Waste Disposal Intervention Scheme” – the Project involves the Provision of Healthcare Waste Management Facilities (including medical waste incinerators) in all Federal Tertiary Healthcare Facilities in the Country.

 Consultant to UNIDO on Enabling Activities for the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

 Consultant to the World Bank on Environmental and Medical Waste Management Plans for the Avian Influenza Control and Human Pandemic Preparedness and Response Project.

 Consultant, Centre for Ethno-medical Practice, Research and Conservation (CEPRAC), Abuja; Duties include research work into traditional medicinal plants, their uses and conservation. Presently, developing a 10 hectare medicinal plants conservatory and health farm in Gaube District, Abuja.

 1997 – 2000:

Executive Director, Infratec Ltd, Port Harcourt: Duties included Health, Safety and Environment Trainings for staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and oil industry service companies in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

 1992 – 1997:

Senior Medical Officer, Bethelmed Clinics, Lagos, Nigeria.

Some Publications and Writings:

Disposal technology options for healthcare waste management – a global view – paper delivered at the National Workshop for Healthcare Waste Management in Owerri, Nigeria – for Federal Ministry of Environment/ National Action Committee on Aids – November, 2007.

Identification and evaluation of some threatened indigenous medicinal plants of the Eastern Nigeria rainforests.

Noise Pollution – an analysis of the problem and the methodology of its control.

National Healthcare Waste Management Plan for Nigeria – for the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria.

Environment and Safety: Any Linkage?- Paper delivered to senior management staff of Power Holding Company of  at the 2005 Safety Week of the company.

“Consideration of some Intellectual Property Issues in Traditional Medical Practice” – Paper delivered at the WIPO/NOTAP international workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, Abuja, Dec. 2005.