{"id":12079,"date":"2017-02-24T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12079"},"modified":"2017-05-16T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T09:51:18","slug":"hon-j-u-uyeh","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/hon-j-u-uyeh\/","title":{"rendered":"UYEH, Hon. J. U."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran politician, Hon. J. U. Uyeh was born on April 20, 1932. He is from Mbayongo, Vandeikya, Benue State. His father, Uyeh Abo, had more than a hun dred Children, but Hon. Uyeh was influenced in his early lifeby christian missionaries. He attended P.R. School, Abwa from 1940-&#8217;46 and Tiv Middle School, Mkar from 1947-1949. He also trained as a nurse, at the School of Nursing, Mkar (1950-&#8217;54). Before becoming a member of Northern House of Assembly in 1961, he was an Assis tant Chief Nurse between 1958-&#8217;61. He was the chairman of the disbanded Mid dle Belt Congress of Nigeria in 1964 and an elected councillor for finance (1969-71), Hon. Uyeh was also a member of the Benue State Steering Committee in 1975. Hon. J. U. Uyeh married his wife Rhodah, a teacher in 1954. They have five children. He has visited the U.K., France, Italy and Switzerland. In his spare time he plays football and lawn tennis. A member of the National Party of Nigeria, Hon. Uyeh represents Vandeikya East in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12079","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12079","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20310,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12079\/revisions\/20310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}