THE ACADEMIC RIGMAROLE OF A RURAL GOVERNMENT FARMER'S" DAUGHTER!

THE ACADEMIC RIGMAROLE OF A RURAL "GOVERNMENT  FARMER'S" DAUGHTER!

*Ph.D~~UNN(2021)

*PDE~~ESCET(2017)

*B.Sc~~NOUN**(2010*Inconclusive)

*M.Sc~~UNN(2009)

*PGD~~~ESUT(2004)

*HND~~~IMT ENUGU(1987)

*OND~~~ACAST OKO(1984)

*WASC~~WMGS ONITSHA (1980)

*FSLC~~~UZO-STATE FARM SCHOOL

My academic story at a glance brings tears 😭 to my eyes 👀.

A journey without a vision or direction culminating into a huge feat came without my knowing and asking, yet God was busy doing great things in my life.

From a farm settlement primary school in the remote part of Adani, Nsukka area of East Central State at the time to a city of light; Onitsha's Washington Memorial Grammar School, my incredible quest for knowledge started! That was in 1975.

Finished secondary school as average student coming out with a Division 2 result in 1980.

I couldn't get JAMB admission for 2 years while teaching as an Auxiliary Teacher at Girls' Secondary School Umuchu which gave me the opportunity of spending time with my father and affording me the privilege of knowing the town and it's people while giving me the fun memories I cherish till today. 

I still believe that these 2 years out of my whole existence gave me the love❤️ I have for my Umuchu community till date. 

Not wanting to be left behind as my colleagues were leaving, I applied to the then Anambra State College of Arts, Science and Technology, Oko(now Federal Polytechnic) where I was admitted for the Ordinary National Diploma in Mass Communication in 1982.

 After my year 1, I was posted to Radio Nigeria Enugu for my 3months Industrial Attachment. It was there I got comfortable with news writing and reporting before going back to complete my Ordinary National Diploma programme. 

I finished at Oko in 1984 and got a teaching job while I was on my 1 year Industrial Attachment and there after opted for the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu for my Higher National Diploma in 1985 where I finished in 1987 and proceeded to my National Youth Service Corps programme in August 1987.

I got married shortly after I finished service and forgot about going to school again till 1999 that I again picked a Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication form at Enugu State University of Science and Technology(ESUT) and never looked back.

In 2006, I went to University of Nigeria Nsukka for a Masters Degree where I made a preference for Public Relations.

Finishing my Masters and faced with the STIGMA of "HND" as I was still in service, I enrolled for a B.Sc in Mass Communication at National Open University and was in my year2 when God used the late Prof Ikechukwu Nwosu and dragged me out of the school for my Ph.D in Public Relations at University of Nigeria Nsukka in 2012. 

My admission letter read 3years, but since what is written is not always what is done, I spent 9YEARS after all as I took a bow on 1st December 2021 and received my flowers.💐💐💐

As University of Nigeria Nsukka was busy dealing with me, I went to Enugu State College of Education(Technical) ESCET and enrolled for the Professional Diploma in Education(PDE) in 2015 and finished it 2016 while still waiting for my "Ogas at the Top" at University of Nigeria Nsukka to release their hold on me.😭

I qualified for the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria(TRCN) and became a Registered Teacher in 2017.

What a journey!

What a rigmarole!

The irony of my academic rigmarole is that someone recently looked me in the eye and told me that I cannot teach in Mass Communication Department since Public Relations is  different from Mass Communication and what I did was inconsistent with research in Mass Communication! 

Of course I told the person that non of the people teaching Public Relations in the revered Mass Communication in that  school has a Ph.D in Public Relations and that's the truth!

An accomplished civil servant who worked with both Anambra state and Enugu state governments for 35years and retired as a Director of Information in 2020.

An accomplished academic who reached the greatest academic height without planning for it!

My name is Ngozi-Okey Margaret Amalu Ph.D.

I graduated from the Department of Marketing, University of Nigeria and my area of specialization is Public Relations.

I have now left everything about Public Relations and Mass Communication for MY NEW FOUND LOVE 💕 AND PROFESSION~~ NETWORK MARKETING which will enable me touch and change more people's lives than I would have done in either Public Relations or Mass Communication!

This is indeed my story!

On this my 2nd year of being pronounced a Doctor of Public Relations,I choose to celebrate my beloved father Mr Vincent Obi Mgbemena who believed in me and my academic adviser Prof Ikechukwu Nwosu who dragged me into Ph.D even at death!

These wonderful men though now dead saw in me what I never saw in myself and it won't be a bad idea if say that I owe everything to them!