Joy Chinwe Eyisi

Joy Chinwe Egusi (born 3 September 1969) is a Nigerian Professor, Author, Scholar, Educationalist, and Philantrophist of Igbo descent. Between 2006 and 2011, she was Head of Department, English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (NAU), Awka, Anambra State. She is now Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), a position she assumed on 26 October 2017.

Quotes

• “There is time for everything. I realized, long ago, that great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of doing anything that is great.”

• It is usually not easy getting the big men and women to enroll in our programmes, even when they have strong penchant to do so. But where the heart is willing, it finds a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling, it finds a thousand excuses."

• "Leaders are learners, if you stop learning today, you stop leading tomorrow"
  • Prof. Joy Chinwe Eyisi chat with Saturday sun

• "I make bold to say that there is nothing motivation cannot do in the life of a child. It works like magic." An interview with Prof. Joy chinwe Eyisi