{"id":11528,"date":"2017-02-21T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11528"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:58:19","slug":"ibiam-sir-dr-akanulate","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ibiam-sir-dr-akanulate\/","title":{"rendered":"IBIAM, Sir (Dr) Akanu(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired medical practitioner, first indigenous Governor Eastern Nigeria, retired Medical Missionary of the Church of Scotland, Calabar Mission; Chairman Christian Count*&#8217; of Nigeria Anam bra and Imo States Committee (hon orary); Born Novenber 29, 1906; Education: Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, Kings College, Lagos, University of St. Andrews Scotland, London .&#8217;\u2022chool of Tropical Medicine and Hygiore; on return to Nigeria, worked as l medical mission ary, 1836-66; appointed principal, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar; chairman University of Iba dan Council; Governor, Eastern Nige ria, 1860-66, past president of the World Council of Churches, and of the World Council of Christian Education; past chairman. Council of the United Bible Societies; past president. Christian Council of Nige ria; chairman, Christian Council of Nigeria, E.C.S. Committee; president Fellowship of Christian Doctors Nigeria, member of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, its Standing Committee and other com mittees; holder of M.B., Ch.B., LL.B. (University of St. Andrew&#8217;s Scot land), D.Litt (University of Ibadan), LL.D. (University of Ife), D.Sc, O.B.E., K.B.E., K.C.M G., G.C.O.N Married and has three children, two girls and a boy. Address (Home) 4tA &#8220;Ganymede&#8221; Unwana, Afikpo Division, imo State, (Office) 41A, Colliery Avenue, Enugu. Hobby: reading, gardening. IBRAHIM, (Sir) Kasbjm, teacher, first indigenous Governor of ttorthem Nigeria, Chancellor University of % Lagos; Born in Maidaguri, Borno State 1910. Education: Katshina Training College; spent the early part of his life as a teacher, appointed a 6 , voting teacher, 1933; founder mem ber of the banned Northern People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) 1951 elected mem ber of the Northern House of Assem bly and the House of Representa tives, serving as a minister both at the Federal and Regional levels \u2014 he was the North Regional Minister of Social Development and Survey; later returned to work for the Bornu Native Authority; served in the Nigerian Senate; was chairman of the former Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology and later chairman of the Provisional Council of Ahmadu Bello University; appoin- * H ted Governor Northern Nigeria, 1962, was knighted by Queen Eliza beth II the same year; when the Army took over power in January i 1966 he became Adviser to the Military Governor Northern Region; appointed Chancellor University of Lagos. Married with children; Add ress: Maiduguri, Borno State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,167,174,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11528","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-leadership","category-medicine","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11528","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}