{"id":10551,"date":"2017-02-14T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10551"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:05:41","slug":"okirika-chiefdr-wellington-o","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okirika-chiefdr-wellington-o\/","title":{"rendered":"OKIRIKA, Chief(Dr.) Wellington O."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSc; politician, administrator; Born: June 26,1946; Place: Kunukunuma; LGA: Warri South; State of Origin: Delta; EDUCATION:Baptist Primary School,Ogidigben, 1950-54; Government Primary School,Irrua, 1954-55; Ishan Grammar School, 1956-62; School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1962-64; University of lbadan, 1966^70; CAREER: Forestry Asst, Ministry of Agricultural Resources, Benin City, Bendel State,1964-66; Asst.Conservator of Forest Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Benin City, 1970-74; mem, Warri Education Board, 1974-76; Principal Conservator of Forest Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Benin City,1976; Supervisory Councilor of Education and Services, Warri Local Government Area, 1976-79;ch., Executive ch.,Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, since 2007; Coordinator, Oil&#038;Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, OMPCON; Forged Alliance with Traditional Ruler of the Oil Producing Areas of Nigeria,to form (TROMPCON); ah: Pioneer Student First Senior Prefect from Form one-five, Ishan Grammar School; award: Chevron International Community Leadership Award; Honorary Degree: Doctorate Degree of Communication Arts and Public Administration by Institute of Journalism and Continuing Education, Affiliate of the Open University of California; Oyemekun Peace Aw Club of Enugu Capital Foundation,Nigeria; Leadership and Role Model Award, Leadership and Role Model Foundation, Nigeria; Distinguished Merit Award, Association of Nigerian Youth Writers, Enugu; Unity Award by Talent Star\/Volta Global Production for Outstanding Personality Who has fought for Peace in the Niger Delta; Traditional Title: Bolowei(Prime Minister), Gbaramatu Kingdom; Izon Ebidowei of Obotebe Kingdon; Peregbalowei, Kabowei Kingdom; Ebena. Seimbiri Kingdom; Odion, Ozoro Kingdom; Ome Udo \/,Agbassa Kingdom; off: Delta State Oil Product Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Warri, Delta State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10551","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10551","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\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}