I am a professor of polymer and biofuels (physical organic Chemistry) and currently the Deputy Centre Leader/Deputy Director, Operation, Centre for Food Technology and Research (CEFTER), Benue State University, Makurdi. My research focuses on polymers and renewable energy (biofuels) and their impact on the ecosystem, oils, and food science. I obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Pure and Industrial Chemistry from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Enugu State, Master of Science in Polymer material and Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Material Science (UMIST), United Kingdom and Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Benue State University (BSU). My current research project work is on the use of food waste to generate energy titled ‘Biomethane energy from abundant agricultural waste for off-grid food processing technologies in Wurukum and Onyagede community – A pilot project’. In 2014, I was part of the team that proposed and won a World Bank grant under the African Centre of Excellence (ACE-I) and started the Centre for Food Technology and Research. I was Head of Department of Chemistry from 2015 to 2019 and initiated and mounted new courses run by the department for CEFTER. The department achieved both National and International accreditation across various programme, timely graduated students at all levels, formed new collaborations and networks, enhanced staff training and promoted research by achieving TETFund grants. At the same period, I doubled as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of CEFTER from 2015 to 2019. The ACE-I project focused on developing a critical mass of well-trained Africans at masters and doctorate level to have the capacity to address post-harvest losses which is a developmental challenge in Benue State, Nigeria, and the Region. At the round up of ACE-I project in 2019, CEFTER team won another World Bank grant; ACE-Impact which took off in July 2019, I was then appointed as the Deputy Centre leader/ Deputy Director, Operations in the Centre. My job description includes co-management of over 81 academics in their teaching and research activities, general administration, coordinating the Centre’s research commercialization activities, planning, and coordinating the annual works, coordinating the procurement activities, overseeing the monitoring and evaluation activities in the Centre. I have attended so many capacity building workshops, trainings and professional certification courses; worth mentioning is the Project management certification course, ICDL certified in cyber security, ICT in Education, and online collaboration. I have supervised students’ research at both undergraduate and post graduate levels and mentored both students and younger colleagues. I have been an external examiner at undergraduate, postgraduate (MSc and PhD) to the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Nasarawa State, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa and Durban University of Technology, South Africa.

Dr. Sylvester Obaike Adejo, an Associate Professor of Physical and Food Chemistry, is of the Department of Chemistry, Benue State University, Makurdi. His areas of research are corrosion inhibition using eco-friendly materials, adsorption modelling and food formulation and micronutrients. A widely travelled person, Dr. Adejo has attended and presented research papers in a number of international conferences/seminars/workshops and received trainings around the globe. His research work culminated into the proposal of a new two-parameter adsorption isotherm model known as Adejo-Ekwenchi Adsorption Isotherm Model. For his research out, Dr. Adejo was list by Google as one of the top-ranking scientists in Nigerian in 2015/2016 (www.worldscientistsranking/nigeria). He has developed, along with his research group, a new method of corrosion monitoring. Dr. Adejo has supervised and graduated quite a number of Master’s and PhD students. He has served as departmental examination officer, postgraduate seminar coordinator and postgraduate coordinator in the Department of chemistry. Dr. Adejo, currently, is a Deputy Director in-charge of research and collaboration, Africa Centre of Excellence for Food Technology and Research, Benue State University, Makurdi

Principal Assistant Registrar, Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi. Holds a BA (Hons) in English and an MA in Literature in English, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature in English. A member of the Chartered Institute of Professional Administrators of Nigeria (CIPAN) and the Association of Nigerian University Professional Administrators (ANUPA). He has 15 years experience of University administration, spent 10 years at the College of Health Sciences as Junior Staff Officer Establishment, pioneer Transport Officer, Protocol and Information Officer, Administrative Officer-Central Administration and Faculty Officer BAMS amongst other top Management Service Committees. At CEFTER,He has five years’ experience at the Centre for Food Technology and Research (CEFTER) as an Assistant to the then secretary before he was appointed as the Substantive Secretary in March 2026. He has held various leadership roles in administration, cooperatives, church, and SSANU, and has participated in several local and international training programs.