Chinenye Egbo holds the record for the youngest lecturer at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT).
She is currently 24 years old and an indigene of Enugu
State.
Becoming a lecturer has continuously been
the goal of Chinenye right from childhood. She tells BBC News Igbo in
an interview recently, that she created the energy of
being an educator when she was five. Her father
had needed her to become an engineer but she demanded being
a lecturer. Her mother backed her aspiration and energized her to go for it.
She bagged first class in Guidance and Counselling after
which she proceeded to attain her Masters in the same field. It was after her
Masters that she started applying for jobs and was employed by the Enugu State
University of Science and Technology.
She is currently pursuing her doctorate and hopes to attain
professorship in no distant time. Chinenye doesn’t only teach in the
University. She also volunteers to teach in Primary and Secondary Schools pro
bono, free of charge.
On student-lecturer relationship, Chinenye says she has a
cordial relationship with her students. Some of the students are her age mates
but they still respect and seek counsel from her. She discloses that the
students confide in her and seek help from her in difficult aspects of their
studies.
Although most of the students are always surprised meeting
her as their lecturer for the first time, Chinenye maintains that she still
humbles herself and teaches them accordingly. Aside what is in the curriculum,
she also inculcates morals and spirit of hard work in them from time to time.
The erudite scholar mentions that before she began teaching
in the University, she was into interior decoration. Lecturing doesn’t stop he
her interior decoration job as she has many dedicated workers that carry on the
work in her absence. She only supervises. As such most of her students see her
as their role model and aspire to be like her. She also encourages them and
wishes them the very best in life.
Also speaking to BBC News Igbo is Professor Charles Eze, the
Acting Vice-Chancellor of Enugu State University of Science and Technology. He
attests to the brilliance, sheer hard work and emulating qualities of Chinenye
who distinguished herself in her field of study by becoming the overall best
student of her set. This according to him made the University to absorb
Chinenye and goes further in sponsoring her towards attaining her Ph.D.
Chinenye is an acclaimed international journal writer with
lots of published articles to her credits. These critically acclaimed articles
and book reviews will smoothen her journey into attaining her professorship
which she prays and believes God for at a young age.
Source: All School
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