Goodluck Nanah Opiah is from Abacheke Egbema of the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State in Nigeria. He started his primary school at Abacheke Primary School Egbema. In 1977, he was admitted into Egbema Secondary School, where he obtained the West African School Certificate and later proceeded to the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) in Portuguese Harcourt, wherein he received a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Business Administration in 1987.
Rt. Honorary and member representing Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta, Oru West in the Federal House of Representative. He represented Ohaji/Egbema constituency in the Imo House of Assembly from year 2003 to 2011. He is of the People"s Democratic Party (PDP).
Opiah worked in the private sector from 1991 to 2003, including as a Senior Sales Executive with UTC Nigeria Plc, Portuguese Harcourt-Rivers State, and then as General Manager, Bewac Auto products Plc, Portuguese Harcourt.
In 2003, Opiah was elected to the Imo State House of Assembly on the People"s Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to represent the Ohaji/Egbema Constituency of Imo State. He sponsored the bill prohibiting discrimination against persons infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome at work places and institutions.
He also helped the establishment of Imo Oil Producing Areas Development (ISOPADEC) through the sponsoring of a bill to that effect. Today, ISOPADEC is fully operational.
He was Chairman, House Committee on Commerce, Industry and Tourism.
Chairman, Transport Committee. Chairman, Petroleum Committee. In 2015 Opiah got elected as a Member House of Representatives of the National Assembly in Nigeria.
Opiah was overwhelming elected to represent Ohaji/Egbema Constituency in Imo State Legislature for second term in the year 2007.
His colleagues in the legislature unanimously elected him the 8th Honourable Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly without a dissenting voice on June 5, 2007.
Between 2003 and 2007, he was Chairman and member of various House Committees and Ad-hoc Committees in the House.
