Name Anthony Chukwudi AKPANTA, PhD
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Married
Home Address Amaokwe-Amiyi, Oguduasa
L.G.A/State of Origin: Isuikwuato/ Abia
Nationality: Nigeria
Contact Address: Department of Statistics
Abia State University, PMB 2000, Uturu , Abia State
GSM Number +2348052348195
E-mail Address: ac_akpa@yahoo.com
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED WITH DATES
- Trinity Theological College Umuahia Dip.in Theology 2013-2016
S/N | Institution | Qualification | Date |
i. | Amiyi-Uhu Central School | FSLC | 1973-1979 |
ii. | Methodist College Uzuakoli | O’ Level WASC | 1982-1984 |
iii. | Abia State University, Uturu | B. Sc. Statistics | 1989-1993 |
iv. | University of Ibadan | M. Sc. Statistics | 1996-1998 |
v. | Abia State University, Uturu | Ph.D. Statistics | 2003-2007 |
OTHER QUALIFICATION OBTAINED
General Certificate of Education (GCE), Advanced Level in Accounting 1989
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Director, Centre for Remedial Studies Abia State University (May 2016-till date)
- Member, Abia State University Governing Council (Aug. 2012- Nov.2015)
- Member, Editorial Board, Abia Journal of Population Studies (2009 till date)
- Member, Editorial Board, Sciencia Journal, A publication of Faculty of Biological and Physical Sciences Abia State University Uturu, 2012 till date
- Consultant Statistician-United Nation Population Fund(UNFPA) 2008 Endline/Baseline Survey (EBS) (Oct. 2008-Aug. 2009)
- Expert Counterpart to Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, NISER, Ibadan-( Oct. 2008-Aug.2009)
- Research Assistant to the National Coordinator of the Endline/Baseline Survey(EBS) 2008 of UNFPA
- Peer-reviewer for Statistics in Transition new series –An International Journal of Polish Statistical Association, 2015
- National Monitor, June/July 2008 & 2012 NECO SSCE Examinations
- JAMB Supervisor 2010-2013
- Head, Consultancy Unit, Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu ( Jan. 2008 – Nov. 2015)
- Faculty Representative at the Post-Graduate Board, Abia State University, Uturu (2007 till date)
- Member University Senate, Abia State University, Uturu
(Dec. 2007- Dec. 2015)
- Head, Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu (Dec. 2007- Dec. 2015)
- Secretary, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ABSU Chapter (2000- 2002)
- Assistant Secretary, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ABSU Chapter (1998-2000)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu ( 2012- till date)
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu ( 2007- 2012 )
- Lecturer I, Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu (2004- 2007)
- Lecturer II, Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu (2001- 2004)
- Assistant Lecturer , Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu (1998- 2001)
- Graduate Assistant, Department of Statistics, Abia State University, Uturu (1995- 1998)
SERVICES TO THE UNIVERSITY AT COMMITTEE/PANEL LEVELS
- Member, Abia State University Senate Committee on how best to improve on the services rendered by Tenece, her ICT service provider, November 2014
- Chairperson, Centre for Population Studies (CPS) Abia State University Research Committee (July 2012- till date)
- Member, Tenders Board Abia State University Governing Council (2013- 2015)
- Member, Budget Monitoring Committee Abia State University (February 2015- Nov.2015)
- Member, Investigation Panel into alleged Examination Malpractices (2011)
- Member, Investigation Panel into the Activities of a group of Suspected Cult Members (2011)
- Secretary, Committee for the Production of Course Outline and Curriculum for Computer Science in the Faculty of Biological Sciences(2008)
- Member, Abia State University Centre for Population Studies Advisory Committee(2012-till date)
- Member, Panel of Investigation into Report of Alleged Professional Misconduct against a staff of Mass Communication Department (May 2015)
- Member, Investigation Panel on the Alleged cases of Examination Malpractices against 28 IDEA Students of Various Disciplines and Programmes 2013/2014 Session (December 2014)
- Spearheaded the conduct of Census of Abia State University Students 2012 under the auspices of the Centre for Population Studies Abia State University
- Analysed the 2012 ABSU Students’ Census Exercise using SPSS Package
OTHER PUBLIC SERVICES WITH DATES
- Staff Adviser, Joint Association of Science Students (JASS) Abia State University Uturu ( 2004 – Dec.2015)
- Ordained a Deacon in the Anglican Communion December 15, 2012.
- Ordained a Priest in the Anglican Communion December 1, 2013.
- Non-stipendiary Vicar attached to St. Peter’s Anglican Church Leru in Umunneochi L.G.A. of Abia State (2013- till date)
- Lay Synod Secretary, Diocese of Isuikwuato/Umunneochi, Anglican Communion (2005 -2012)
- Member, Board of Governors Central Oguduasa Secondary School, Isuikwuato (2008 -2010)
- Chairman, Education Board Diocese of Isuikwuato-Umunneochi, Anglican Communion (2006 – till date)
- Assistant Clerical Synod Secretary Diocese of Isuikwuato-Umunneochi, Anglican Communion (2013 – till date)
- People’s warden, St. Barnabas (Ang.) Cathedral Church, Diocese of Okigwe (2009-2012)
- President, Amaokwe-Amiyi Youths’ Association (2000-2004)
ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/SEMINARS ATTENDED WITH DATES
- The Population and family Life Education (POP/FLE) Courses for Master Trainers, organized by the Abia State Ministry of Education in Collaboration with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) in December 1999.
- Teaching of Mathematical Sciences in Tertiary Institutions, organized by the National Mathematical Center, Abuja, in April 2000
- Nigerian Statistical Association Conference held at Enugu in September 2005
- Foundation Postgraduate Courses in Time Series and Demographic Analysis, organized by the National Mathematical Center, Abuja in May 2005.
- The Sub-Sahara Workshop on Mathematical Analysis and Optimization organized by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy at Ebonyi State University, Abakiliki in November 2006.
- Nigeria/UNESCO Sensitization Workshop Preparatory to Baseline Survey of Nigeria’s National Science Technology and Innovation (S. T. & I) System, held at Enugu in April 2008.
- A Workshop on Large Scale Sample Survey organized by The National Mathematical Centre Abuja from 31st October to 4th November 2011.
- Presented a paper on ‘On the Graphical Estimation of the mean of a Normal Distribution’ at the Nigerian Statistical Association Conference held at Makurdi in September, 2012.
- Conference Coordinator: International Conference on Population Census-Taking in Nigeria: emergent issues held at Abia State University Uturu from 14 – 16 October 2014.
- Resource Person at the Technical Review Workshop on Draft Questions for 2016 Census organized by the National Population Commission on December 16-17, 2014 at Kaduna.
- Conference ICT Coordinator: Second International Conference on Population Census-Taking in Nigeria and Internally Displaced Persons: Implications and Policies held at Abia State University Uturu from 19 – 21 October 2016.
POST GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS MADE
- A Comparative Analysis of Some Estimators in Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) Sampling in Multi-Character Survey (2013) by ANOZIE MARY EDITH (08/PG/M.Sc./STAT/6419)
- Statistical Analysis of Reported Cases of Tuberculosis Disease in Ebonyi State 1998-2011 (2012) by IGWE NDUBUISI OBASI (10/PG/PGD/STA/7311)
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODY
- Member, Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), 2005 till date
- Member, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)-2014 till date.
COMPUTER SKILLS ACQUIRED:
- Statistical Analysis: Minitab; SPSS; Microsoft Excel
- Word Processing: Microsoft Word
- Presentation: Microsoft Power Point
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
- Okorafor, A. C. and Akpanta, A. C. (2003):
Stochastic Iterative Method for the Solution of Reynold’s Equation for Journal Bearing.
Global Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences Vol. 9, No. 1, 157-162
- Iwueze, I. S. and Akpanta, A. C. (2006)
Stochastic Modeling of Inflation in Nigeria.
Global Journal of Mathematical Sciences Vol. 5, No. 1, 17-24
- Iwueze, I. S. and Akpanta, A. C. (2007)
Effect of the Logarithmic Transformation on the Trend-Cycle Component.
Journal of Applied Sciences 7(17): 2412-2422
- Iwueze, I. S., Akpanta, A. C. and Iwu, H. C. (2008)
Seasonal Analysis of Transformation of the Multiplicative Time Series Model.
Asian Journal of Mathematics & Statistics 1 (2): 80-89
- Iwueze, I. S. and Akpanta, A. C. (2009).
On Applying the Bartlett Transformation Method to Time Series Data
Journal of Mathematical Sciences, vol.20, No.3 (2009) 227-243.
- Akpanta, A. C. (2009)
On the Problems of PPS Sampling in Multi-Character Surveys
Global Journal of Mathematical Sciences Vol.8, No.1, 2009: 31- 42.
- Akpanta, A. C. (2010)
Nigeria’s Census Figure Politics and Real Development Plans
Abia Journal of Population Studies Vol.1, 2010: 195-202
- Ohakwe J, Akpanta A.C, and Dike O.A. ( 2012)
The Implication of Square Root Transformation on a Gamma Distributed Error Component of a Multiplicative Time Series model. African Journal of Physical Sciences, Volume 5 Number 1, 2012
- Ohakwe J, Akpanta A.C, and Dike O.A. ( 2012)
Unit Mean and Constant Variance of Generalized Gamma Distribution after Square Root Transformation in Statistical Modeling. Mathematical Theory and Modeling Vol. 2, No. 12, 2012.
- Akpanta A.C. and Okolosi M.O.(2012)
On the Estimation of 2006 Nigeria Population using Some Probability Sampling Techniques. African Journal of Physical Sciences, Volume 5,Number 3, 2012.
- Akpanta A.C. and Okorie I.E. (2014)
Application of Box- Jenkins Techniques in Modeling and Forecasting Nigeria Crude Oil Prices. International Journal of Statistics and Applications, Vol. 4 (6), 2014.
- Akpanta A.C. and Okorie I.E. (2015)
Threshold Excess Analysis of Ikeja Monthly Rainfall in Nigeria.
International Journal of Statistics and Applications, Vol. 5 (1), 2015.
- Akpanta C, Okorie I. E. and Okoye N.N, (2015)
SARIMA Modelling of the Frequency of Monthly Rainfall in Umuahia, Abia State of Nigeria. American Journal of Mathematics and Statistics 2 015, 5(2), DOI: 10.5923/j.ajms.20150502.05.: 82-87.
- Akpanta A.C. and Okorie I.E. (2015)
On the Time Series Analysis of Consumer Price Index Data of Nigeria -1996- 2013. American Journal of Economics, Vol.5, No. 3 2015
- Akpanta A.C. and Okorie I.E. (2015)
Investigating the Significance of a Correlation Coefficient using Jackknife Estimates. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) (2015) Volume 22, No 2, pp 441-44
- Akpanta, A. C. and Okorie, I. E. (2015)
Evaluating the Relationship between Foreign Exchange Buying Rates of Naira/SDR and Naira/WAUA: A Cointegration Approach, American Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 5 No. 5, 2015, pp. 249- 252. doi: 10.5923/j.ajms.20150505.04.
- Akpanta, A. C. and Okorie, I. E. (2015)
On the Multivariate Analysis of the level of Use of Modern Methods of Family Planning between Northern and Southern Nigeria International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR (2015) Vol. 24, No 2, pp. 249-255
- Akpanta, A. C. and Okorie, I. E. (2015)
ARI (p, d) Modeling and Forecasting of Nigeria’s External Reserves World Journal of Probability and Statistics Research Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2015, pp. 1- 9. Available online at http://wjpsr.com/
- Akpanta, A. C., Okorie, I. E. and Kanu, F. (2015)
On the Generalized Linear Modeling of Spousal Age Difference and Violence against Wife in Nigeria. Accepted for publication by International Journal of Statistics and Systems
- Akpanta, A.C. and Okorie, I. E. (2016)
Forecasting performance of Univariate Box-Jenkins Time Series and Classical Decomposition Time Series Modeling. Accepted for publication by the American Journal of Economics.
- Okorie, I. E., Akpanta, A. C., and Ohakwe J (2016)
Marshall-Olkin Extended Power Function Distribution: Properties and Applications. Accepted for publication by the European-American Journals.
- Akpanta, A. C., Okorie, I. E. and Fabian C. (2016)
Univariate Box-Jenkins Modelling of CBN FOREX Selling Rates of Naira/GBP”
Accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research
- Okorie, I. E., Akpanta, A. C., and Ohakwe J (2016)
The Exponentiated Gumbel Type-2 Distribution: Properties and Application.
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2016, Article ID 5898356, pp.1-10.
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Time Series
- Sampling Theory and Survey Methods
- Population Studies
AWARDS RECEIVED
- Award of Recognition by the Primate, Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion – April 11, 2007.
- Most Students’ Friendly HOD 2008/2009 Academic Session by the Students’ Union Government (SUG) Abia State University Uturu.
BOOK AUTHORED
- Statistics: The Steps Approach 1
3rd edition, Rabboni Publishers International Enugu, Nigeria (2011).
BOOK CHAPTERS CONTRIBUTED
- Chapter 4 of Managerial Economics – Principles & Practice;
Educational Books and Investment Ltd. Port Harcourt (2000)
- Chapter 5 of Abia State University Centre for Remedial Studies
Mathematics, 2004.
MONOGRAPH
- Coordinator of the GST 106 Part B Monograph (2010)
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