Born
Chief
ASIODU,
Philip Chukwuedu
BA, MA. administrator, industrialist, born Feb ruary 26, 1934, Lagos; married Eugenia Olajumoke Pereira 1964, three sons, four daughters; Education: Sacred Heart School. Calabar, 1939-42, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1943-44, St Paul's Catholic School, Ebute Metta, Lagos, 1944- 45, King's College, Lagos, 1946-52, Queen's College, Oxford, UK, 1953-56; Career: Appointed External Affairs Officer, 1957- 60; First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Nigerian Mission tothe United Nations, New York, USA, 1960-61; Counsellor, Nigerian Mission to the United Nations, 1961-62; member, Organisation of African Unity Pro vincial Secretariat, Addis Ababa 1963-64; Head of Division, Ministry of External Af fairs, Lagos, 1963-64; Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lagos Affairs, 1964- 65; Acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry ofHealth 1965-66; Permanent Sec retary, Federal Ministry of Industries, 1966- 71, Ministry of Mines and Power, 1971-75; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry ofPe troleum and Energy, Lagos, 1975; served as Director in various government companies including Nigerian Industrial Development Bank, Nigerian Sugar Company Limited, Ni gerian Flour Mills Limited; Chairman, Ni gerian National Oil Corporation (now Nige rian National Petroleum Corporation) 1971- 75; Chairman, MEDIFE Limited, Lagos, Chairman, Summit Furniture Company; Chairman, Bendel Feed and Flour Mill Lim ited; Director, Metal Box Toyo Glass; Di rector, West African Milk Company; Direc tor, BEECHAM Nigeria Limited; Director, SCAN Construction Nigeria Limited; Chair man, New Africa Holdings Limited, Kaduna; Director, Gulf Oil Company, since 1988; Senior Special Adviser, onEconomic Affairs, to the President, 1999-Date; Chairman, Na tional Executive Council, Nigerian Conser vation Foundation; member, Governing Council, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; member of council, Bendel State (now Edo State) Institute of Technology, Benin City; member, Advisory Committee, Tropical Products Institute, London, Secretary of Pe troleum and Mineral Resources, 1993; Presi dential Aspirant, Peoples' Democratic Party, 1999; Traditional Titles: Izoma Onyaa of Asaba; Political Party: member, Peoples' Democratic Party, 1999-date; Publication: Essays on Nigerian Political Economy, Samkon Publishers, 1993; Honourary De gree: Doctorate Degree ofLiterature by the University of Benin, 1991; Foreign Deco ration: Recipient, Republican Decoration of the FirstOrder of the United Arab Republic (Egypt), September 1970; Hobbies: lawn tennis, golf; Official Address: The Presi dency, Aso Rock, Abuja; Or:MEDIFE Lim ited, 58/60 Broad Street, 4th Floor, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-630646, 633041; Home: 2, Ologun Agbaje Street, Victoria Island, State. Telephone: 01-613536.
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