A Ph.D. graduate of The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; with expertise at the intersection of Molecular Pharmacology and Microscopy Techniques (transmission electron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy); strong background in Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Structural Biology; and a Fulbright Research Scholar at West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA; UNESCO Molecular and Cell Biology Program Fellow, University of Georgia, USA; Global Infectious Diseases Scholar, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA; Ellison Medical Foundation Fellow, University of Georgia USA; Visiting Scientist, Institute of Parasitology McGill University, Canada; Visiting Scientist at Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan; and currently a Professor of Biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology, Minna and also hold a part-time appointment at the Pan African University of Science, Technology and Innovation in Nairobi, Kenya where I teach Advanced Molecular Biology Techniques to Ph.D. students; Appointed Visiting Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot Israel for four weeks (effective October 2023 but on hold because of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian war ). Many professional development trainings have been attended and include: Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Course: Practical Aspects of Drug Discovery held in University of Cape Town, South Africa; Vaccinology in Africa; 1st Pan-African Summer School in Nanomedicine; 18th Course on Biology of Disease Vectors; Practical Course on RNA Interference and Reverse Genetics in Trypanosomes; An Advanced Course in Bioinformatics and Post Genomic Molecular Cell Biology of African Trypanosomes and Malaria; and EMBO course on Low Temperature Immunocytochemistry and Quantitation in Biological Electron Microscopy. My teaching career at the university level spans a period of 28 years. There is a strong commitment to and passion for teaching and research, and therefore has successfully graduated ten doctoral students and twenty-two master students in two main areas, namely drug discovery from medicinal plants (nine PhDs and twenty-one Masters) and food safety (one PhD). Four other PhD students co-supervised were successfully graduated in plant-based drug discovery research. Scholarship is evident in having a total of 94 publications and a book chapter (h-index of 22 and 1757 citations), presented 5 invited papers at international level (4 in the United States and 1 in South Africa), and two commendation letters for scholarship from the Vice Chancellor in December 2021. Proven ability to attract funding for independent research or scholarly activity as demonstrated by recorded successes in grant applications, either singly (USD348,285 dollars) or jointly with colleagues (USD5.5 million dollars and USD6 million dollars for establishing Centers of Excellence). Research accomplishments include: being the first to structurally show that a tripartite structural linkage is responsible for nuclei and mitochondrial genome positioning and segregation in Trypanosoma brucei; obtaining hits and leads from medicinal plants that can be exploited for development of drugs for the treatment diabetes, cancer, both African and American trypansosmiases, malaria, and schistosomiasis; received prize for excellent presentation at the VIITH Molecular Parasitology Meeting in Woods Hole, USA; shown the effects of soil type, type of applied fertilizer, age of plant at time of harvest, and different processing methods on the levels of micronutrients (vitamins C and A; Fe, Mg, Ca, 2 Cu, Zn, Na, K) and some anti-nutrients and toxic substances (oxalate, Cyanide, nitrate) in the leaves of Amaranthus, Vernonia amygdalina and Hibiscus sabdariffa grown in Minna, North Central Nigeria.