{"id":10104,"date":"2017-02-08T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10104"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:48:21","slug":"okaru-paul-newton","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okaru-paul-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"OKARU, Paul Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, chartered electrical engineer, born July 27 1928, Oguta, Imo State; married Valentina Olisa 1959, two sons, three daughters; Education: Sacred Heart School, Oguta, 1935-42, St. Patrick&#8217;s College, Calabar, 1943-47, Survey Student, 1948-49, University College, Ibadan, 1949-53, Aberdeen University, Scot land, 1955-59; Career: Appointed Head of Operations Division of all NEPA, 1977-81; Director, Asea Brown Boveri, ABB Limited; Executive Director Transmission and Generation; Head of Engineering in NEPA, 1981- 84; Director of Operations, NEPA, 1972- 77; Capital Works and Service Engineer, Electrical Corporation of Nigeria, ENC, 1961-62; Manager, Electrical Corporation of Nigeria, ENC, Abeokuta Area, 1962-63; District Manager, Electrical Corporation of Nigeria, ENC, Plateau District, 1964-65; acting Senior Engineer, Electrical Corporation of Nigeria, ENC, 1965-67; Head of Transmission Rehabilitation, 1970-71; Di rector of Operations, Ministry of Mines and Power, 1973-77; Principal Inspection Engineer, Ministry of Mines and Power, 1971; Assistant General Manger Operations, Ministry of Mines and Power, 1977-81; Consult ant, Montreal Engineering Company, since 1987; Proprietor, NIMAVEC International Limited, 1984; Director, 1984-88; member, Nigerian Society of Engineers, 1995;fellow. Institution of British; fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers and Chartered Engineer of the UK; Traditional Title: Ogbuagu Oshiji Damanze, Olili Nzele, Ojiabu of Oguta; Hobbies: reading, walking; Official Address: ABB Limited, 46, Industrial Avenue, Ilupeju, PMB 21055,&#8217; Ikeja, Lagos State; Home: 23A, Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi, Lagos State; Telephone: 01-680-556, 493-7347, 493-7348, 493-7330.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10104","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10104"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}