Director of Quality Assurance

Engr Professor Asinyetogha Hilkiah Igoni

Asinyetogha Hilkiah IGONI is a professor of Farm Power and Machinery Engineering at the Rivers State University, where he has been teaching Agricultural and Environmental Engineering for over thirty-three years, and currently the Director of Quality Assurance of the University. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree (Second Class - Upper Division) in Agricultural Engineering obtained in 1989 from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, as it then was, Master of Science (MSc) in Farm Power and Machinery Engineering, 1991, from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Management, 2006, from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, specializing in Renewable/Alternative Energy Development. In 2000, Engr Prof. Igoni obtained a Certificate in Computer Network Technology from Tata InfoTech Education Centre, New Delhi, India, via an international scholarship from India Technical and Economic Cooperation/Special Commonwealth Assistance for Africa Programme (ITEC/SCAAP); and in 2009, he obtained a Certificate in Best Practices in Election Management and Observation, from American University, Washington DC, USA.

Professor A. H. Igoni

Between 1993 and 1997, Engr Prof. Igoni worked as an Executive Assistant at Afribank Nigeria Plc, Port Harcourt, and from 1997 to 2000 worked on the base construction project of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited, Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria, as an Assistant Camp Supervisor at TSKJ Nigeria Limited, and later the Local Labour Camp Maintenance Manager of the company. Between 2007 and 2011, he was an Electoral Commissioner at the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, where he superintended over local government elections, in addition to being in-charge of Estate and Works’ maintenance at the Commission. From 2008 to 2013, Engr Prof. Igoni served as a member of the Rivers State Greater Port Harcourt Development Committee, in charge of the foundation planning and designing of the new city, called Greater Port Harcourt. He was respectively the Chairman of the Rivers State Ministry of Works’ Projects Monitoring Unit and Committee on the Formulation of Framework for Performance-Based Evaluation of Roads and Highways Maintenance from 2009 to 2011. He was the Administrative Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Sanitization of Port Harcourt, under the superintendence of the Rivers State Ministry of Urban Development (2012-2013); and, in 2019, was part of the membership of the Rivers State Committee on Accreditation of Private Secondary Schools in Rivers East Senatorial Zone of the State. Between 2019 and 2021, and from 2023 to date, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Rivers Cassava Processing Company.

Engr Prof. Igoni was a member of the 9th Governing Council of the Rivers State University, from 2006 to 2007. Between 2018 and 2021, he was the Acting Head of the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, and acted as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in August, 2022. In November, 2022, he was nominated as a Senate Representative in the Joint Committee of Senate and Council on the Award of Honorary Degrees. He is currently the Chairman of the Faculty of Engineering Renewable/Alternative Energy Development Committee. An astute academic, Engr Prof. Igoni has over eighty academic papers published in national and international journals, conference proceedings and technical seminars and symposia, for which he has outstanding international ratings on Google Scholar and Scopus. Additionally, he has three well-researched and highly rated textbooks to his credit, namely: Engineering of Solid Waste Management for Energy Generation, Practical Farm Power Engineering and Agricultural Land Surveying and Development (With Practical Guides). As a result of his research and publications exploits, he won the 2021 Distinguished Senior Scholar of the Year Award, of the Faculty of Engineering of the Rivers State University, as the Best Researcher of the Year 2021. In 2023, he was listed as one of the top 10,000 researchers in Nigeria, by AD Scientific Index.

Engr Prof. Igoni has designed and developed a variety of agricultural machines appropriate to our local processes, including a Motorized Mechanical Weeder, Gari Sieving Machine, Fish Feed Dryer, Fish-Smoking Device, and lots more. He has developed systems and models for the development of bioreactors for the transformation of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste into renewable energy in the form of biogas. He is a certified engineer by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) of over twenty-five years’ experience; and has been a member of the Engineering Regulations Monitoring Committee of COREN, as a COREN Inspector since 2006. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineers (NIAE), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Nigerian Institution of Safety Engineers and a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers (NIEE).