02/12/2022
BIOGRAPHY OF WANTAREGH PAUL IYORPUU UNONGO KWAGH NGISE
Born on September 26th 1935, Wantaregh Paul Iyorpuu Unongo, belongs to the Kwaghngise-Anure-Abera ancestry, in Turan, Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State.
In November 1958, young Unongo was employed as an Entries Clerk, by the prestigious Barclays Bank, DCO. Owing to his diligence, hard work and the positive encouragement of his British expatriate Manager, Mr. Naylor, Wantaregh Paul Unongo made rapid progress and attained the enviable rank of Acting sub-Accountant, usually reserved only for Whites, in 1959. His banking job, although very attractive and rewarding at that time, for a young man, his innate desire to pursue Higher Education made him resign this, his very lucrative and enviable job with Barclays Bank, DCO, to further his education.
He proceeded to the Nigerian College of Arts, Science, and Technology Zaria, now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in October 1959 for Two years Pre-Degree Programme; then referred to as Pre-Medicine, which was in fact Advanced Level GCE in Zoology, Physics and Chemistry and completed his course successfully in 1960. With the encouragement and partial assistance of the expatriate Chief Social Welfare Officer of Northern Nigeria, Douglas Green (a Canadian) Wantaregh got admission to Canada to study Experimental Psychology at the University of Calgary in Canada. He stayed for two years, and later transferred to the University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada, where he completed both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, specializing in Human Experimental Psychopathology. He was subsequently offered a six (6) Year Scholarship by the North Regional Government to study at the University of London, "leading to a Ph.D in Psychology" in that UK University.
In 1968, 1969 and even 1970, whilst actively pursuing the psychological war aims of the country, Unongo still routinely lectured with the University of Lagos, and helped establish and consolidate the Department of