{"id":11350,"date":"2017-02-21T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11350"},"modified":"2017-11-09T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:32:34","slug":"okwechime-colonel-nduka-michael","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okwechime-colonel-nduka-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"OKWECHIME, Col Nduka Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>industrialist, civil engineer; Born: November 12, 1934; ht: Ibusa so: Delta; Married: Clara Ifeoma Emefiele, 1961; No of Children: two sons, one daughter; EDUCATION: St. Patrick Catholic School, Sapele; Christ the King College, Onitsha; Government College, Ughelli, 1947-52; Regular Officer Special Training School, Teshi, Accra, Ghana, 1953; Eaton Hall Officer, Cadet School, Chester, 1954-55; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1955-56; Royal School of Military Engineers, Chalham, Kent, UK, 1957-60; US Army Engineers postgraduate School, 1963-64. CAREER: Commander, I Field Son Nigerian Army Engineers, Kaduna, 1960-63; Commander, Nigerian Army Engineers Defence Headquarters, 1966-67; retired at the end of the Civil War in 1970. md. Gabral Industries (West Africa) Ltd, Tiki Construction Company, Sierra Leone Ltd, Freetown, 1971-77, Tiki Services Ltd, Benin City; ch. National Non-Government Organisation on EPI\/ORT; former ch. Nigerian Football Association, National Polioplus Committee, Rotary International, tt: Agana Ogbuenyi of Ibusa. h: Lowered the British Olay and hoisted the Nigerian flag at Independence in 1960; Hob: football, athletics, golf, music, off: Tiki Services Nigeria Limited, 22, Uwa Street off Second East Circular Road, P.M.B. 1409, Benin City; res: 123B, Aiguobasimwin Crescent, GRA, P.M.B. 1409, Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219,307,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11350","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service","category-industrialist","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11350","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11357,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11350\/revisions\/11357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}