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Curriculum Vitae

Education

October 2024 – Present: PhD studentship, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute for Geoecology

April, 2019 - January, 2021: MSc  in Applied entomology and pest management  University of Lagos, Nigeria        

December, 2006  -  July, 2011: BSc in Microbiology, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria 

September, 1998 - June 2004: SSCE (NECO) in Sciences Mt. St. Gabriel’s Secondary School,  Makurdi, Nigeria    

Work

February, 2014 to November, 2023: Conservation Officer at Nigerian Conservation Foundation

Fellowship

2022: Fellow, A. G. Leventis African Biodiversity Fellowship at the University of Oxford, UK

Grants

May, 2023: Ecologists in Africa

December, 2020: The Rufford Foundation

March, 2019: British Entomological and Natural History Society

Publications

2024

Jan Peter Reinier de Vries, Rick Buesink, Jan van Leeuwen, Ojonugwa Ekpah, Abiodun Matthew Adedapo, Bibitayo Ayobami Owolabi, Ehikhamele Isaac Erho-mosele, Babasola Williams Adu, Kemabonta Kehinde Abike, Sylvester Ogbogu and Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra (2024). Dragonflies and damselflies in Cross River State, Nigeria (Odonata). A Journal of the International Dragonfly Fund IDF International Dragonfly Fund Report.

2022

Ekpah, O. (2022). Wildlife status and ecotourism potentials of Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Entrepreneurship, 2(4), 199-212.

2021

Ekpah O, Kemabonta, K. A.  Dijkstra, K-D. B., Ogbogu, S. S., Fomekong-Lontchi, J. and Omonu, C. (2021). Odonata from two Western Nigeria rainforests, with a record of the rare Ceriagrion citrinum Campion, 1914. IDF report

2020

Ekpah, O., Adu, B. W. and Kemabonta, A. K. (2020). An inventory of Odonata in relation to water quality in Lekki Conservation Centre, Nigeria. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, 33(4):367-382.

Ekpah, O., Kemabonta, K. A., Ogbogu, S. S. and Fomekong-Lontchi, J. (2020). Records of lost andassociated species of Odonata in Cross River National Park, Nigeria. Odonatologica 49(3/4): 245 – 258

Research

Current Project

“Patterns of spatial distribution and habitat suitability of Nigerian Odonata”

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