Kalu Mosto Onuoha was born on 17 July 1947 in Akanu
Ohafia,
Abia State. Onuoha received early education (primary and secondary school) in Nigeria. He attended
Lorànd Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, where he majored in
geophysics, obtaining the PhD degree (summa cum laude) in 1978. After a decade of studies and post-doctoral research work in
Europe, he returned to Nigeria in 1980. He was employed by
University of Nigeria, Nsuka (UNN) as a lecturer in the department of geology in 1980. Onuoha excelled in his lecturing job at UNN, rising to the position of head of the department (HOD) of geology in 1987. In October 1988, he earned a promotion to the rank of a full professor of geology. At UNN, Onuoha supervised and mentored many undergraduate and postgraduate students. Several of his students excelled in their careers with many of them rising to top positions in the oil and gas industry while some of those in academic rose to the rank of professors in different universities within and outside Nigeria In 1991, he was appointed Chair of Petroleum Geology, at the
University of Calabar, becoming the first Professor at the
Mobil Producing Nigeria (subsidiary of ExxonMobil) from 1991 to 1992. Onuoha took a leave of absence from the UNN in 1996 to serve as Technology Development Adviser (Subsurface Development Services) at the
Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, Port Harcourt. He vacated this position in 2002, and returned to UNN. In January 2003, Onuoha was appointed to the Shell/NNPC Chair of Geology serving in this capacity until December 2012. He was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of University of Nigeria, Nsukka between 2005 and 2009. In January 2013, he was appointed to the PTDF Chair of Petroleum Geology at the UNN. Prof. Onuoha will be succeeded at the end of his four-year tenure as President of the Nigerian Academy of Science by Prof.
Ekanem Ikpi Braide who has served for three years as the academy's vice-president. Prof. Braide has earlier served as Vice-Chancellor of two different universities and is currently the Pro-Chancellor of Arthur Jarvis University. ==References==