Prof. Amani Danjuma Peniel

Prof. Dr. AMANI Danjuma Peniel (AIGM, MIBTM, FICRED…), B. Env. (Environmental Education & Management); B.Ed. (Educational Management) M.Ed. (Educational Management); Ph.D. (Educational Management & Leadership), Doctor of Commerce, Research and Enterprises Development. A Professor of Educational Management at Prowess University, Delaware-USA.

Prof. Dr. AMANI Danjuma Peniel was born on the 14th of November 1972 to the family of AMANIand Mrs. AmssamaHadiza AMANI. He hails from Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state. Born into a humble background, Prof. AMANI exhibited an early love for education; as a toddler, he was said to have made books his favorite that he could read very well while still in primary three. He would flip through pages of newspapers.

He started catholic school early but his educational pursuit was cut short by post-civil war events. He obtained his First School Leaving Certificate and entered junior secondary school in 1986. He finished his secondary education from Community Secondary school, Rumuigbo, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in 1993. His quest for further education saw him go to the prestigious University of Calabar where he obtained a B.Env. and M.Ed. in Environmental Education and Management in 2004 and 2008 respectively. He obtained another B.Ed. in Educational Management and MSc Educational Management before proceeding for a Ph.D. in Educational Management and Leadership all from the Global Extension University, Brooklyn USA. He has lectured in Public and Private Tertiary Institutions across the globe and has supervised over 400 academic research works at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels. Dr. Amani has more than 50 articles published in reputable journals and his works been cited by several scholars.

Motivated by a consuming passion for entrepreneurship, he opened the All Children Education Centre in Port Harcourt and became the only northerner and the youngest proprietor of a private nursery and primary school in Rivers State. Too young to be a proprietor of a school, Dr. AMANI was barred by the security protocols from entering the Governor’s reception together with other proprietors of private schools in Rivers State on a visit to the then Rivers State Military Governor, Colonel Musa DaudaKomo. 

In the 2012-2013 academic year, Dr. AMANI officially opened the InstitutUniversitaireBilingue Rehoboth, which he founded in 2010 at Porto Novo, Republic of Benin. In 2015, the institution moved to Togo and became Liberal Bilingual University-Institute fully authorized and accredited by the Togolese Government.