Roseline Konya

**Roseline Sonayee Konya** is a Nigerian  academic and a politician from Khana, Rivers State. She is a professor of Toxicology and Pharmacology at the University of Port Harcourt. She served as Commissioner for Environment in the cabinet of Governor Peter Odili and was re-appointed to the same office in the cabinet of Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike. She was also the Chairman of Civil Service Commission in 1997.

## Background and education

ma bi efu ewo Buan, efu Khana Local Government Area ki di Rivers State, Nigeria. Professor Konya chanẹ ukọchẹ unyi ukọchẹ eche anẹ (Primary School) efu unyi ukọchẹ St Arthur’s Anglican Primary School, Buan; kwọ ọmọ i mu lo t’unyi ukọchẹ eche nyọgba (Secondary School) efu unyi ukọchẹ Mercy Secondary School, Okigwe (ki di Imo State, Nigeria abajoi yi) nwu ukoche eche n'ogba nwu. Amoni, ogu anẹ Nigeria (Civil War) ki chanẹ efu ọdọ 1967 i mu unyi ukọchẹ nwu damu. Efu ọdọ 1968, taba ki ogu la kpa chi uja, i lo nyu k’uchẹ efu unyi ukọchẹ Mercy Secondary School, Port Harcourt, ọmọ i dẹ ki gba ukọchẹ eche nyọgba nwu nyi ọdọ 1969. Kwọ ọdọ 1970 lo ti 1971, i lo k’uche A-level efu unyi ukọchẹ St. Anne’s School, Ibadan; kwọ ọmọ i mu lo t’anẹ bo (UK) efu unyi ukoche Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), ọmọ i ch’ukọchẹ B.Sc. nwu kpa efu ọdọ 1976, i la kpa ukọchẹ Master’s degree nwu efu ọdọ 1977 kwi Loughborough University. Efu ọdọ 1984, Professor Konya la kpoji ukoche Doctorate Degree nwu efu unyi ukọchẹ Brunel University, London..

## Uche nwù (Career)
Konya chanẹ uche nwu am’obo k’uchẹ (Lecturer) efu unyi ukọchẹ eyì ikẹbẹ(University) ki di Port Harcourt efu ọdọ 1979. Kwọ ọmọ, i mu lo t’unyi ukọchẹ n’ogba Brunel University, efu anẹ UK, ọmọ i lo k’uche Doctorate Degree (Ph.D) nwu kpa. I nyi d’oji t’anẹ Nigeria efu ọdọ 1984, i la gbe uche Lecturer nwu chanẹ t’efu uña ikẹbẹ ekidẹ ójanẹ Pothakot (University of Port Harcourt). No d’olu k’ama mu nwu d’oji uche Commissioner nwu kpa efu Rivers State, i che uche oji-oji wewe, amonwu chi ameyi:
* Chairman, Protocol Subcommittee of Convocation Committee (1990)
* Director, Delta Rubber Company (1991–1993)
* Commissioner, Civil Service Commission (1993–1996)
* Chairman, Civil Service Commission (1997–1999)
* HOD, Animal and Environmental Biology Department (2001–2003)
* Member, Academic Advisory Board, Institute of Petroleum Studies (IPS)
* Dean, School of Graduate Studies
* Pioneer Provost, School of Graduate Studies.                                                                                                                           Efu ọdọ 2003, ma mu Konya d’oji uche Professor efu am’uche ki n’eyi kpaai ab’ewu-obi kpai ane (Animal and Environmental Biology).
I la chi ágbojí (Chairman) efu am’onẹ ki ch’uche n’ogba (Technical Committee) k’ama nyi d’oji oda (Recommendations) ki gwi uche-ko (Report) Rivers State Government n’eyi efo-bi-bi (Soot) wa.

## Awards

* Odu-n’enyi (Award) n’eyi Ogwu-nyo ki ch’uche n’ogba efu am’uche ane (Environmental Technology) ki gwi British Society of Commerce wa, n’odu uche-nyo kpai uche-oji-oji ki Professor Konya che kpa efu odo 2004..
* Ma ko odu nwu d’efu iwe am’onẹ n’ogba (WHO IS WHO) n’odu uche-nyo nwu efu uche ogbo-ogbo (Management Intelligence). Odu-n’enyi (Award) n’eyi Special Merit Award wa i mu nwu d’obo efu ochu ẹk’ẹgwa (October) efù ọdọ 2008.
* Odu-enẹnyi (Award) n’eyi Special Merit Award ki kwi Ugbo am’ukọchẹ-unyi unyọgba (Student Association) eyi Animal and Environmental Biology wa, ì n’odu k’i chi (akonẹ ẹñwù) Lecturer ki n’eyi tọgba t’abo-du (Most Outstanding Lecturer) efu ochu ẹk’ẹla (September) efù ọdọ 2010.
* Odu-eneyi (Award) ki gwi am’ogwu-nyo kpai am’enekpelu (Committee of Deans and Provosts) n’eyi unyi ukọchẹ unyọgba k’ama k’uchẹ eyi efù unyí eyì ukọchẹ nyọgba kpa (Post Graduate School) efu anẹ Nigeria – efu ochu ẹk’ẹgwe-ji (December), ef'ọdọ 2012.Award by the Committee of Deans and Provosts of Post Graduate School (CDPGS) in Nigeria – December, 2012

## Personal life
Roseline Konya kpai ọkọ nwu ki kwu, Barido Konya, ma nọ, Ma la bi amọma mẹta

I chi ogwu-nyo (Chairman) ek'ọjọgbatodu efu am’onẹ ki ch’uche n’ogba (Knights Council) efu ufẹdẹ Methodist – Port Harcourt Archdiocese; i la chi onobulẹ ek'ọjọgbatodu ki chi Methodist Knight efu anẹ Rivers kpai Bayelsa States..

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