{"id":10455,"date":"2017-02-13T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10455"},"modified":"2017-04-19T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:01:45","slug":"dimkpa-israel-duru","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/dimkpa-israel-duru\/","title":{"rendered":"DIMKPA, Israel Duru"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale of Birth: Monday (Eke) 25&#8242;&#8221; May, 1942 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Nwangele Village\/Town: Umuozu Chief Dr. Israel Dimkpa KSC is a reputable administrator and industrialist. He is the Chairman \/Managing Director ofTcegee Nigeria Manufacturing and EngineeringCompany Ltd. a company that was specialised in the manufacture of nails and fencing wire. Born on May. 25 1942. Chief Duru holds BSc lions degree in Economics from the Michigan State University USA and a Doctorate degree (DBA) in Business Administration and Psychology. Dr Dimkpa has made enormous contribution to the development and industrialisation ofthe economy through manufacturing enterprises. \u2022 Ile has held many positions of trust and honour in the industrial section among which are: \u2022 Chairman. Organised Private Sector Imo State \u2022 Chairman. Association of Industrialists. \u2022 Director African Iron and Sleel Abuja His membership of Professional Bodies and Associations among others includes: \u2022 Member Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) \u2022 Member. Nigeria\/America Chamber of Commerce, Imo Slate Chapter \u2022 Imo State Chapter of various Chambers of Commerce. Industry. Mines and Agriculture. OCCIMA. NASSI. NACCIMA. and NACC \u2022 Member. Nigerian Proprietors Association and Pioneer Member. Ikoyi Club. Lagos Chief Dimkpa has for long used his successful business links and connections for the development of rural and urban communities. In his village Umuozu, Ile was one time President of Umuozu Development Union. Nwangele for 15 years. \u2022 Encouraged and sponsored many young businessmen and set them up on their feet \u2022 Offered jobs lo many young school leavers \u2022 Created business opportunities for skilled labour and through his export industry, brought home the strong needed foreign exchange. \u2022 Development of infrastructural facilities in local communities, good roads, health centre, community halls, and schools. \u2022 Contributes regularly for the work ofthe Church both in his home diocese and for mission overseas. Hence he is knighted with the honour ofthe Knight of St Christopher in the Anglican Communion. A hard working gentleman is married with children and has generously enriched people&#8217;s lives with his generosity and good will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10455","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10455","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\/10455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}