{"id":10287,"date":"2017-02-10T16:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10287"},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:47:32","slug":"dema-professor-isaac-solomon","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/dema-professor-isaac-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMA, Prof. Isaac Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, nutritionist, educationist, born July 9, 1923, Oghema, Abua, Rivers State; married Joan Aselemi 1952, four sons, one daughter; Education: Government College, Umuahia, 1936-40, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1940-41, Yaba Higher College (now Yaba College of Technology), Yaba, University of London, University of Hull, England, 1953- 55, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England, I 955-59; Career: Ap pointed Assistant Agricultural Officer, De partment of Agriculture, Nigeria, 1946-52; member, team of nutritionists from Nigeria and the Nutrition Section ofthe USA&#8217;s Na tional Institute of Health (that carried Out a detailed nutritional Survey and thereafter drafter a policy for Nigeria&#8217;), 1965; Scien tific Secretary to the joint FAO\/WHO\/OAU (STRC) Food and Nutrition Commission for Africa, 1967; served as Agricultural Officer (Chemistry, Soils and Plant Pathology Divi sion ofthe Oil Palm Research Station (now NIFOR), Benin City and Abakaliki), Depart ment (now Federal Ministry) of Agriculture ofNigeria; pioneer Chairman, Rivers State Public Service and Statutory Corporations Service Commission and member, Rivers State Government Executive Council, 1969- 75; Consultant, Food Policy and Nutrition Surveillance, FAO, since 1971; served as pro fessor of Nutrition, University of Ibadan, till 1975; retired from UI, 1975: Chairman, Board of Management, College of Science and Technology, Port-Harcourt (now Rivers StateUniversity of Scienceand Technology); Chairman, Governing Council, Rivers State College of Education (an affiliate of Univer sity of Ibadan); Chairman, Raw Materials Sourcing Committee, National Fertilizer Company ofNigeria Limited; member, and correspondent, Commonwealth Human Ecol ogy Council, London; Trustee, Home Eco nomics Teachers&#8217; Association of Nigeria; member, Paediatric Association ofNigeria; pioneer honorary Secretary and life member, Nutrition SocietyofNigeria; foundation hon orary Secretary and life member, Nutrition Society ofNigeria; foundation honorary fel low, Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology; Honorary Degree: conferred with Honorary Doctor of Science (Hon. DSC), by the Rivers State University of Sci ence and Technology, Port-Harcourt, 1986; Publications: Nutrition InRelation To Agri cultural Production (FAO, 1965), Urbanisation and many articles on nutrition in national and international learned journals: Hobbies: reading, writing; Official Address: National Fertilizer Company ofNigeria Lim ited, NAFCON Plant Complex, Onne, PMB 5180, Port Harcourt; Telephone: 084- 820022, 820043, 820079, 820143; Home: 22, Ohaeto Street, D-Line, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10287","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10287","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}