From 1980 she was a lecturer and administrator at Michael Okpara College of Agriculture, Umuagwo, Imo State in Nigeria.
[7] In an October 2005 meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, it was unanimously agreed to peg the test fee at N1,000.
[8] Answering questions in the House of Representative in November 2005, Chinwe Obaji said that any university that collected more than N1,000 from candidates seeking admission after the post JAMB screening had done so in violation of her directive.
The government set up a system of reprimanding parents who do not register their children for school, and started to recruit 40,000 teachers for rural communities.
[12] Dr Chinwe Obaji was appointed Professor of International Education at the Voorhees College in the USA starting in 2007.