sentences:  In 2009,the Government of Rivers State of Nigeria named its newest hospital in Port Harcourt, after him.Most recently in February 2014, he was awarded the Nigerian Centenary Honours award by the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.On retirement from the Nigerian university system in 1998, he moved to Finland where he lives with his wife, Irma Seppanen, herself a retired public health chief matron.