Professor Adikwu graduated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of
Nigeria in 1986. He worked as a hospital pharmacist upon graduation from 1986-1990. In
1990, he joined the services of the University of Nigeria and rose to the rank of Professor in
1998. He teaches and researches into various aspects of pharmaceutical education and
particularly raw materials utilization and sustainability as well as health sector reforms and
public health. Currently he has over 300 research articles in both national and international
peer reviewed journals and over a hundred papers presented at both local and international
conferences. Ten of his postgraduate students are currently Professors of Pharmacy in various
universities and two of them have been Vice Chancellors in two Nigerian Universities.
1n 2007 he was appointed the National Coordinator of Science and Technology Education
Post Basic (STEP-B), a project aimed at improving post-basic and higher education system in
Nigeria through the World Bank IDA system. Under this Project eleven Centres of
Excellence emerged based on various national needs.
He has both local and international experience in the pharmaceutical industry especially in
education and research as he has visited overseas laboratory thrice as an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellow in Germany (1999-2000), a Matsumae Fellow in Japan (2002) and a Royal
Society Fellow in Manchester, United Kingdom (2006). In the area of international grants, he
has won a research grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry of Great Britain (2002); a
grant from the Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy (2004) and another grant from the
International Foundation for Science, Sweden (2004). Locally he has won grants from the
National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja and
another grant from Wellcome Nigeria Trust, Lagos.
He has had trainings at the World Bank Institute in Washington, USA; Harvard School of
Graduate of Education in Boston, USA and at the Hebrew University in Israel on Innovations
in Higher Education. He has also had trainings at the Galilee Management Institute in
Galilee, Israel. He has had other trainings at the Third World Academy of Sciences (now
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World), Trieste, Italy on Bioinformatics and Drug
Development; trainings on Entrepreneurship at the E4Impact Foundation at the Catholic
University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy and another training on Entrepreneurship at The
University of West of Scotland, United Kingdom.
He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science (FAS), a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical
Society of Nigeria (FPSN), a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy; a Fellow of the
Science Association of Nigeria (FSAN), an Honorary Fellow of the Science Teachers’
Association of Nigeria (FSTAN), an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological Society of
Nigeria (FESN), Member of the Institute of Public Analysts of Nigeria (MIPAN), Fellow of
the African Scientific Institute (FASI), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and
Governance (FCILG, USA), Fellow of the Institute of Oil and Gas Research (FIOGR),
Fellow, International Society of Comparative Education, Science and Technology
(FISCEST)and the founding President of the Nanomedicine Society of Nigeria.
He has won the Nigerian Prize for Science (2006) and the May and Baker Prize for
Excellence in the Practice of Pharmacy (2009). In 2019, he was awarded The World
Academy of Science Prize for Development of Materials for Use in Science and Technology.
He was the Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja, Nigeria, from June 2014 to June, 2019.
He is happily married with children.