UKEGBU, Dr. Basil Nnanna

BA (Hons), Ph.D, educationist, philanthropist, politician, born August 1930, Amafor, Imerienwe, Owerri, Imo State; married Dorothy Nwanyinnaya Amuneke 1953, three sons, one daughter; Education: St John's Catholic School, Im erienwe, Our Lady's Catholic School, Emekuku, St. Patrick's College, Ikot Ansa, Calabar, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan; Former Principal, New Nigerian High School, Mushin, Lagos; Founder and Principal, Owerri Grammar School, 1958; Elected Member, Federal House of Representatives, 1959 and 1964-65; Chair man, Governing Council, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, 1974-76; Founder, St Basil's Community Hospital; Coordinator and Founder, Technological and Economic Development Mission (TEDEM) and its af filiate (banned) Imo Technical University, Owerri; Political Paties: member, defunct Na tional Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), 1951-66, Gubernatorial Candidate for Imo State, banned Great Nigerian People's Party (GNPP), 1979 and former 1st National DeputyChairman; Former Interim Chairman, the Unregistered Progressive Peoples Party (PPP); Publication: The Imerienwe Experiment; Agrarian Revolution Without Tears; Produc tion In The Nigerian Oil Palm Industry 1900-1954;…