{"id":10850,"date":"2017-02-17T13:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10850"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T11:19:32","slug":"okoroafor-hon-emenike-dominic","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okoroafor-hon-emenike-dominic\/","title":{"rendered":"OKOROAFOR, Hon. Emenike Dominic"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HND; politician, administrator; Born: November 22, 1958; Place: Ntalakwu; Hometown: Ntalakwu; LGA: Bende; State of Origin: Abia; married with children; EDUCATION: Presbyterian Primary School, Mbaigbo, Bende, 1967-72; Aggrey Memorial College, Arochukwu, 1973-79; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1980-85; CAREER: NYSC, Dept. of Agriculture\/Vet. Services, Federal Capital City, Abuja, 1985-86; Self Employed Cocoa Farmer; Dealer. Fairly Used Imported Cars; Board mem, Abrigade Finance Ltd, Aba, 199293; director, 1993-94; dir., Toonak Group, Aba; Elected mem, Abia State House of Assembly. Representing Bende South Constituency, 1999-07; Executive ch.,Bende Local Government Area, Abia State, 2008; chairman House Committee on Commerce, Industry and Technology; chairman, Food Committee, NYSC Orientation Camp, Kuje, Abuja; mm: Leadership Forum; Sec. Gen., Ntalakwu Progressive Union; Old Bende Union; h: Best Corper that Served the Veterinary Section; Won the South Community Relations LG Chairman of the Year 2008 Award, Gateway Hotel, Ota, Ogun State; Nigeria LG Chairman Merit Award 2008 (LOGMA); Best Performed ch. in Abia State in the 2008 Nigerian Local Government Development Merit Award by the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Slates &#038; Local Government Affairs in collaboration with SEGNIP Promotion; Award of Honour,The RAYSIAN INT&#8217;L, 2008; National Award for Excellence in Grassroots Leadership on his recognition as the Nigeria Overall Best Performed Local Government ch. in Works and Infrastructure Sector,pp: Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; hob: football, swimming, reading, traveling, music; off: Bende Local Government Area, Abia State, Nigeria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10850","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10850","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\/10850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10850"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}