{"id":14410,"date":"2017-03-08T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14410"},"modified":"2017-04-20T03:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T02:58:45","slug":"ike-chris-nkem","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ike-chris-nkem\/","title":{"rendered":"IKE, Chris Nkem"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Saturday (Orie) 22&#8242;&#8221;&#8216; October, 1960 State of Origin: Abia Local Government Area: Umuahia North The pioneer Speaker ofAbia State House ofAssembly Hon. Chief Nkem Chris Ike (KSM) was born on Saturday (Orie) 22nd October. 1960 to the family of Late Chiel*and Mrs Stephen Asomba Ike. He is the fifth ol&#8217;the six children ofthe family. Education \u2022 Central School Ofeme \u2022 Ohuhu Community Secondary School Amaogwugwu. Umuahia \u2022 Abia Slate University Uturu B.Sc ( lions). Political Science \u2022 University ol&#8221; Lagos M.Sc. in International Law and Diplomacy (MILD) Job Experience \u2022 Civil Servant before voluntary retirement to go into politics. Political Career \u2022 Member representing Umuahia North (Ohuhu)State Constituency in 1999 \u2022 Elected Speaker ol&#8217;the State House ofAssembly June 2lul 1999 Current Chairman of HouseCommittee on Environment, Solid Minerals and Cooperatives and memberof other House Committees in the Assembly. Awards and Honours Amember ofthe Distinguished Knighthood ofthe Roman Catholic Church Knight of St Mulumba inrecognition of hisChristian Commitment and services to the Church. \u2022 Made a Chiefby several communities as a result of his philanthropic works like his standing Scholarship Programmes. Health Retainer- ship Project offering Free Medical Treatment in any hospital to all poor indigent people in his Constituency Married to Lady Ilappiness Nkem Ike and they are blessed with three children two boys and a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14410","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\/14410","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\/14410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}