May Ifeoma Nwoye (née Agulue) is a Nigerian author and professor of Business administration. She currently serves as Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria.
She was born in the mid 1950s in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria to Fidelis and Virginia Agulue of Umunya, Oyi Local Government area. She attended Holy Rosary Primary School, Onitsha, and did her Secondary School Education at Maria Regina Girls High School, Nnewi, Anambra State. She proceeded to the George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, where she obtained a degree in Accounting; she later obtained a Master's degree in Business Administration (with emphasis in Finance) from the South Eastern University, Washington DC (1980-1981). In 1997, she completed her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Benin. [1] [2] She had additional training at Graduate School of Public Administration and International Affairs, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America where she studied Leadership and Corporate Governance. She is also an alumnus of Oxford Brooks University, Wheatley, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Nwoye started her career as an accountant at Nutrition Inc, Washington DC before she later returned to Nigeria to participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme as an accountant with the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. She was later employed by the University of Benin as a senior accountant. [3] She also worked at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria.
Her works are targeted at reducing poverty and environmental advocacy. In her 2013 fictional novel, Oil Cemetery, she writes about the struggles of a poor community trying to address the environmental and societal impacts when an oil company sets up business in their village. [4] [5]The novel won her the Association of Nigerian Authors/Chevron Prose Prize on Environment in 2014. [6]
Nwoye has become a proactive influence in the crusade for women’s economic emancipation and empowerment [7] and this in 1988 made the then First Lady of Nigeria appointed her as a member of a special committee set up to articulate programmes for the protection of women’s rights and children in Nigeria. [8] She was the first female to be elected Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) from 2001 to 2004. In 2023, she was awarded a National Honors Award of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) by President Muhammadu Buhari. [9] She is currently a professor of business administration at Nile University of Nigeria.
She is married to Gregory O. Nwoye, a professor of linguistics. They have two children.
May Ifeoma Nwoye (née Agulue) is a Nigerian author and professor of Business administration. She currently serves as Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria.
She was born in the mid 1950s in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria to Fidelis and Virginia Agulue of Umunya, Oyi Local Government area. She attended Holy Rosary Primary School, Onitsha, and did her Secondary School Education at Maria Regina Girls High School, Nnewi, Anambra State. She proceeded to the George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, where she obtained a degree in Accounting; she later obtained a Master's degree in Business Administration (with emphasis in Finance) from the South Eastern University, Washington DC (1980-1981). In 1997, she completed her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Benin. [1] [2] She had additional training at Graduate School of Public Administration and International Affairs, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America where she studied Leadership and Corporate Governance. She is also an alumnus of Oxford Brooks University, Wheatley, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Nwoye started her career as an accountant at Nutrition Inc, Washington DC before she later returned to Nigeria to participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme as an accountant with the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. She was later employed by the University of Benin as a senior accountant. [3] She also worked at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria.
Her works are targeted at reducing poverty and environmental advocacy. In her 2013 fictional novel, Oil Cemetery, she writes about the struggles of a poor community trying to address the environmental and societal impacts when an oil company sets up business in their village. [4] [5]The novel won her the Association of Nigerian Authors/Chevron Prose Prize on Environment in 2014. [6]
Nwoye has become a proactive influence in the crusade for women’s economic emancipation and empowerment [7] and this in 1988 made the then First Lady of Nigeria appointed her as a member of a special committee set up to articulate programmes for the protection of women’s rights and children in Nigeria. [8] She was the first female to be elected Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) from 2001 to 2004. In 2023, she was awarded a National Honors Award of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) by President Muhammadu Buhari. [9] She is currently a professor of business administration at Nile University of Nigeria.
She is married to Gregory O. Nwoye, a professor of linguistics. They have two children.