Maurice Mmaduakolam Iwu was born on 21 April 1950, in Umuezeala, Umukabia, Ehime Mbano in Imo State.
10 Facts About Maurice Iwu
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Maurice Iwu attended Saint Pius X College, Bodo-Ogoni for his secondary education.
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Maurice Iwu studied at the University of Bradford, England, receiving a Master's degree in Pharmacy in 1976, and a Ph.
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Maurice Iwu was a World Health Organization Visiting Scholar to Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, Fulbright Senior Scholar, Ohio State University and won the USNational Research International Prize for Ethnobiology in 1999.
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Maurice Iwu was a professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
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Maurice Iwu was the United Nation's Lead Consultant for the development of Nigeria's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.
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Maurice Iwu has published more than 100 research articles and is the author of four books.
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Maurice Iwu was President of the International Society of ethnobiology, member and ex-President of the Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy, Member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Member of the International Society for Medicinal Plant Research.
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Maurice Iwu was appointed INEC commissioner for Imo State in August 2003, by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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In December 2008, Abubakar Rimi called on Maurice Iwu, to resign from office, citing irregularities in the previous presidential election.