{"id":11096,"date":"2017-02-20T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11096"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:28:35","slug":"okpi-mr-smart-ndem","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okpi-mr-smart-ndem\/","title":{"rendered":"OKPI, Mr. Smart Ndem"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born October 22, 1922, Oji Abam Arochukwu LGA, Abia State; married Ada Kalu Eke 1946, four sons, four daughters; Education: Church of Scotland Mission Primary School, Ndi Oji, Abam, 1930-36, Abriba Presbyterian Schools,  Government College Umuahia, 1937-39, Kings College, Lagos, 1939-41, Senior, Cambridge\/ Matriculation School Certificate; Career: Federal Civil Service, 1942-60; Permanent Secretary, Eastern Regional Service, 1960-73; Region Permanent Secretary, 1973; Federal Civil Service Commissioner, 1992- 97; . member, Imo House of Assembly (minority leader), 1979-83; National Honour: Conferred with Order of the Niger (OON), 1965; member, of the British Empire, 1960;He voluntarily retired from the civil service in 1973. His philosophy of life is &#8220;Live and let live.&#8221; He is married and has children.  Political Parties: member, defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN; Traditional Titles: Ugwu Abam I of Abam Clan; Publication: Farmers Multi-purpose Cooperative Societ ies, 1958; Hobbies: hunting, billiard; Ad dress: 14, School Road, Umuahia, Imo State; Telephone: 088-220-139.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11096","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11096","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\/11096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}