Anya O. Anya (1937-)

Zoologist, Prof. Anya attended Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, University College, Ibadan and University of Cambridge, England (1962-65).  He served as a research officer at the Federal Fisheries (1961-65) and began to lecture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1965.  He was appointed Professor in 1973.  An editor of New Perspectives (1966-68) he is member of the Institute of Biology, Fellow, Linnaean Society, Fellow Cambridge Philosophical Society as well as world Federation of Parasitologists.  He was awarded the NNOM in 1992.