{"id":11080,"date":"2017-02-20T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=11080"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:46:28","slug":"okpareke-catherine-ginikanwa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okpareke-catherine-ginikanwa\/","title":{"rendered":"OKPAREKE, Catherine Ginikanwa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: Sunday (Afo) 30″‘ January, 1955 State of Origin: Imo Contact Address: Crownstar Ltd, 42 Old Aba Road P. O. Box 4760 Port-Harcourt Lagos: 8, Agoro Odiyan Street Victoria Island, Lagos 01-2610151,2620296 ABUJA : Plot 822 Emeka Anyaoku St Area II, Garki Abuja 234-8033168383, 234-805533777 \u2022\u00a3t*! v *\u2022**?* Dr. (Mrs.) Catherine Ginikanwa Okpareke is a professional accountant who has made serious input in the profession and has hitherto kept the tempo of raising the profile of the profession in modern business world Education Holy Family Com cut London SWI 1972 ( Obtained G.C.E O-level Grade 1 Equivalent) Walbrook College London Nl for her A-Level Middlesex University Hendon London NW4 1973 1977 B.A. in Accounting and Finance 2′”‘ Class Hons Upper Division Emile Woo If College of Accountancy for Professional Certificate. ACCA 1978 Nigerian Professional Accountancy Training ICAN 1982 Associate Member University of Port Harcourt 1982 MBA Master in Business Administration Finance and Banking. Hon Doctor of Humanities . Missionary Full Gospel Ministerial Association Inc. California USA. 1986 Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies . Kuril Jos Plateau Stale (MNI) 2004 Employment and Job Experience Gerald Edelman & Co ( Chartered Accountants). London Wl 1975 1977 for Internship in the profession Sperry Univac (UK) as Inter-Company Accountant 1978- line of duties was reconciliation of Inter-Company Operations in 28 locations world-wide and temporary reporting to the Inventory Manager. NYSC 1980 1981. On return to Nigeria as Accountant Pan African Bank Ltd Nigeria 1979 1980. as management account, as co-ordinator of both the financial\/management accounting functions at head office of the bank and reporting to the Chief Accountant 1981 1985 Peak Marvvick Ogunde & Co. Audit Supervisor. 1985 1990 Eastern Bulkcem Company Ltd. ( Financial Controller) 1990 1991 Pelgas Resources Ltd, Executive Director (Finance & Planning). Consults with Enterprise Nigeria Foundation (ENF) an UNDP UNOPS initiative, in respect of their various programmes as well as being involved as a trainer in the Special 10-day Entrepreneurial Capability Development Workshops. 1991 Date. Chairman \/CEO of three flouring companies. These include Chairman CEO Crown Star Ltd, Chairman\/CEO. Hi-Star Marine& Shipping Services Ltd. Chairman\/CEO Geez Management Services Ltd. Membership of Professional Bodies Fellowship of Association of Certified Accountants England ( FCCA) 1981 Fellowship of Certified Accountant Nigeria ( FCA) 1982 Is’ Deputy Vice President -Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria 2004 Member of Council. ICAN 1989 Date Chairman – Students Special Project Committee Chairman Research and Technical Committee Chairman. Investigating Panel Chairman. Publicity . Publications and Image Committee Chairman. ICAN Vision 2010 Committee Chairman. Member’s Education & Training Chairman. Annual Dinner Committee ( ICAN) Chairman of Session- ICAN MCPE Programme Deputy Chairman Programme Committee ICAN Silver Jubilee Committee Member. Finance & General Purpose Committee Member. Examinations Committee Member. Silver Jubilee Committee ICAN Member. Membership Affairs Committee Member. ICAN National Awards Committee. Member. Disciplinary Tribunal Member. Inter Governmental Relations Committee \u2022 Member. Major Tenders’ Board \u2022 Chairman. Annual Accountants Conference Committee ( ICAN) 1996- 1997 \u2022 Chairman. Port Harcourt District Society of ICAN ( 1983 1986) General Secretary, Port Harcourt District Society of ICAN 1981 1983 \u2022 Grand Patron. Nigerian University Accounting Students Association ( NUASA) \u2022 Matron. Association of Accounting Students. University of Port Harcourt \u2022 Faculty Member. Faculty of Management Sciences. Rivers State University of Science and Technology. Port Harcourt \u2022 Paper Presenter-Various Professional Seminars\/ Workshops \u2022 Pastor. The Rock Word Church Port Harcourt 1989 1996 \u2022 President\/Founder Word Foundation Trust \u2022 Board Member. Mercantile Bank Pic \u2022 Member. Imo State Privatization and Investment Bureau \u2022 Board Member. Rohi Ltd \u2022 Board Member. Starspeed Ltd \u2022 She has been invested as President-In-Council of Chartered Institute of Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). 2006. Awards Certificate of Meritorious Service. Association of Accounting Students. Rivers State of Science and Technology. Port Harcourt 1985 1986 \u2022 Meritorious Achievement Awards. International Affairs Leadership Parliament Golden State University USA 1986 \u2022 Honorary Member. Nigerian Social and Cultural Association. Chicago. USA Dr (Mrs.) Catherine G. Okpareke is good at Reading. Jogging. Swimming. Listening to Gospel Music and Teaching. Her advice to the Igbo youths is “you are the future of any community. Stale or Nation and that future which lies in the Youth can be properly anchored on Sound Qualitative Education. Good Moral Engineering and Technological Enhancement. The Igbo Youths are therefore advised to concentrate on these “. To the Leaders, “should come to a point when they can rally round as eminent leaders to appoint or elect or select an Arrow Head who is generally acceptable and whom all would rally round and resolutely support to passionately pursue the enhancement of identified Igbo cause that will guarantee the well-being and overall development of the Igbo Nation “. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2406,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11080","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-accountant","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11080","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\/11080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11080"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}