{"id":11009,"date":"2017-02-20T07:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T06:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11009"},"modified":"2017-05-16T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:43:09","slug":"okpa-obaji-chief-uwadi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okpa-obaji-chief-uwadi\/","title":{"rendered":"OKPA-OBAJI Chief Uwadi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, Consultant, Economist; DOB: January 31, 1956; Place of Birth: Jos, Plateau; LGA: Ohafia; State of Origin: Abia; married, has three children; EDUCATION: Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Jos, 1962-64; UNA Primary School, Kaduna, 1965-66;LA Primary School, Amaekpu Ohafia, 1967-70; Standard College of Commerce Ohafia, 1971-73; University of Lagos, Yaba, Lagos, 1977-87; University of Abuja, Gwagwalada, since 1994; Harvard University, Cambridge, MASS,USA, 1996; CAREER: An Intern, Glintec Associates, 1982-83; Assistant Executive Secretary, The Federation of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors in Nigerians (now Federation of Construction Industry), 1983-88; The Presidency (Nigeria) Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization; 1989-92; Senior Executive, Finance and Investment Division, 1989; Deputy Director Operations. 1992; Director Operations, 1992; First Director, TCPC (The Bureau of Public Enterprises), 1993; director. in-charge, the first phase of the current privatization programme of the Obansanjo Government; 1999- 2000; ceo. Pareto Optimally Ltd., since 2000; mm: Nigerian Economic Society; Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators; Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria; Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers; Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria; Nigerian Institute of Management; Award and Honours: Bende division, eastern Nigeria, scholarship award for primary and secondary education, 1965; University of Lagos Postraduate Bursary Award 1981-83; Traditional Title: Ogo of Abia, 1996; Social Club: Ikoyi Club; Hobbies: reading, watching sports, humanitarian and philanthropic activates; pha: P.O. Box 74664, Victoria Island, Lagos; tel: 234-803-3022073; 234-01-4935523; 234-90-802327; fax: 234-803-174-3022073; e-m: uobaji@yahoo.com, uokpaobaji@ hotmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2403],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11009","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-economist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11009","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\/11009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}