Was born in Ahoada and is a native of Elele in Rivers State, Nigeria. He completed his primary school education at St. Patrick’s School, Edeoha, where his father was a headmaster. On completion of his secondary school with distinction at Baptist High School Port Harcourt, he proceeded to the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, where he received  a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (Magna Cum Laude) and a Doctor of Medicine from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine.
He did his post-graduate studies in Pediatric Internship, and Residency at Howard University Hospital, in Washington D.C. His fellowship in Sickle Cell Disease was at the same hospital.
He has been in professional practice since 1990. He owns and operate the pediatrics practice, Children’s Health Associates of Tidewater, in Virginia, and serves as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.

He has been keenly involved with significant efforts to improve healthcare delivery in Nigeria and partnered with major American organizations, such as Physicians for Peace, as the Nigerian team leader. He helped coordinate medical missions to Rivers State, Zamfara State, and Kaduna State of Nigeria, where he was honored by the Governor and representatives of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Physicians for Peace, USA. He has received numerous awards from Physicians for Peace for work in Zamfara, Kaduna, and the Rivers States of Nigeria. In July 2012, he directed the American Academy of Pediatrics-approved Helping Babies Breathe program in Port Harcourt, sponsored by Empowerment Support Initiative, a Port Harcourt-based NGO and Physicians for Peace. He has held several other community medical programs at the RACE center in Elele, Rivers State. The RACE center is used for youth development programs.

He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also a member of the sections of International Child Health, Community Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics and served as a board member of several civic organizations. One of them is the Chesapeake Schools Health Advisory Board, Minority Affairs Committee of the Eastern Virginia Medical School, and African-PAC, a Washington, DC organization that caters to the African immigrant community.
As a physician and a passionate practitioner of medicine, he is committed to the cause of eradicating or mitigating healthcare issues that affect the rural population of Nigeria.
In 2008, he was one of a few physicians invited to the White House to be honored by President George Bush for medical volunteer missions in Nigeria: …https://physiciansforpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/…/pfp-at-the-white-house..

He served for eight years as a Special Assistant on Environmental health to the Governor of Rivers State. He completed the construction of the Eagle Island wastewater plant and the initiation of the wastewater water reticulation of the phase 8 GRA in Port Harcourt.