Chemist Wilford Jwalshik

Registrar/CEO

The newly appointed Acting Registrar / Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (ICCON), Chemist Akwaowo Idongesit Reuben attended the prestigious Hope Waddell Training Institution in Calabar. He studied Pure and Applied Chemistry at University of Calabar and graduated in 1990 with Second Class Upper Division where he won Prof. D. U. Ekong’s prize for the best all round student award.
He later bagged an M.Sc degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Ibadan in 1998.
On graduation, he served as a Chemistry teacher. Thereafter, he had his earlier stint in the media industry as a Senior Cartoonist with the Rivers State Newspaper Cooperation publishers of The Tide Newspapers (1993-1997) with the pen name “IdongPEE”. He was later appointed as Assistant Science Editor with South-South Express Newspapers (1999-2001). Served as Sports Editor with The Mirror; Chief Cartoonist, Independent Monitor and rose to the position of Executive Editor with National Network Newspaper, Port Harcourt in 2004.
Mr Akwaowo later joined ICCON in 2005 as a pioneer staff, rose through the ranks and served in many capacities transcending virtually all the Departments in the Institute including HOD, Administration/Accounts & Finance.
Most recently he served as the pioneer Team Lead and the Registrar/CEO Representative in the National Chemical Personnel Audit excercise which forms part of the Institute’s regulatory mandates.
He has attended various courses and workshops and represented the Institute at various conferences and fora.
Chemist Akwaowo is a Chartered Chemist and also a member of a number of professional bodies including Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), and most recently, Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN)
Having rose to the rank of Director, Scientific effective 2025, until his appointment, he was the Coordinator, Zonal Offices of ICCON.
The extraordinary Chemist with widespread media and regulatory backgrounds is married with children.

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