Professor Matthew O. Wegwu is a Professor of Biochemistry, and is the current Director of Special Project, VC office, University of Port Harcourt. He has an extensive career in academics, research and consulting. He had his professional trainingin Crop Protection (conducted by RIART, Onne) 1986, Drug awareness programme (NDLEA) 1997, Industrial First Aid Course 1997, Unsafe acts auditing course 1997, Fire Fighting Training Course 1997, Rigging course 1997 and Industrial safety course (SULAN CONST. SER.) 1997 He is a Member, Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NSBMB) and Environmental Society of Nigeria (NES)