{"id":10930,"date":"2017-02-18T01:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10930"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:04:11","slug":"gemade-chief-barnabas-andyar-lorhyer","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gemade-chief-barnabas-andyar-lorhyer\/","title":{"rendered":"GEMADE, Chief Barnabas Andyar lorhyer"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Eng, M.Sc, civil engineer, politician, administrator, born September 4. 1948, Mkar, Gboko, Benue State; married Victoria Mnguenyi Nenger 1974, three sons, one daughter; Education: Bristow Secondary School, Gboko, 1964-68, College, Keffi, 1969-70, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971-74,City-University, London, 1977-78; Career: Co-founder, Sam Barns and Partners, 1980-85; Deputy Managing Director, Benue Cement Company, Gboko, 1983-87; Managing Director, Benue Cement Company PIc, Gboko, 1987-92; Secretary for Works and Housing, Interim National Government, 1993; member, National Constitutional Conference, Abuja, 1994; chairman, Political Transition Committee, National Constitu tional Conference; Chairman, National Consultative Forum, 1994; co-founder and First National Treasurer, defunct Committee for National Consensus, 1994-97; National Chairman, defunct Committee for National Consensus, 1997-98; National Chairman, People Democratic Party, 1999-Date; member, Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party, 1998-99; member, Presidential Policy Advisory Committee, (PAC), 1999; fellowship Award, Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo; 1994; fellow, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Honourary Fellow. Institute of Science and Technology. Ibadan; fellow. Ni gerian Institute of Public Relations; Associ ate Member, Institute of Civil Engineer of United Kingdom, 1975; member. Institute of Highways Transport, U.K, 1978: Politi cal Parties: member, defunct Committee for National Consensus 1994-98; member. People Democratic Party, 1998-date; Tra ditional Titles: Norn yange UTiv (The Ris ing SUn of Tiv), 1994;Ogbuwaruzo of Abia State; Award: winner. National Productiv ity Merit Award, 1993; member, Lioional Club and Deputy District Governor, District 404; Doctorate Degree: Honorary Doctor ate Degree of University of Calabar, 1996; Hobbies: Lawn tennis,squash; Official Ad dress: Office of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, Plot 125, M-Tel Street, Off Monrovia Street, Opposite Banex Plaza, Wuse 11. Abuja. Home B. 8 Mkar Housing Estate, Mkar-Gboko. Benue State. Or: 2, Cannan Street, GRA, PO Box 824, Gboko, Benue State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,166,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10930","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-politics","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10930","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21967,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10930\/revisions\/21967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}