{"id":15431,"date":"2017-03-14T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15431"},"modified":"2017-05-05T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:18:42","slug":"ngaji-senator-dr-gregory-ikaba","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ngaji-senator-dr-gregory-ikaba\/","title":{"rendered":"NGAJI, Senator (Dr.) Gregory Ikaba"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LLB, BL; lawyer, politician, administrator, DOB: November 1.7,1946; Place: Oba Okpoma; LGA: Yala; State: Cross River; Married: Mrs Maria Ngaji; No of Children: five; EDUCATION: Christ the King&#8217;s School, Okpoma, Yala, .1.953-59; Mary Knoll College, Okuku, Yala, 1961-65; Universityof Nigeria, Nsukka, 1973-77; Nigeria Law School, 1977; CAREER:, National Youth Service Corps, Abeokuta, Ogun State, 1978-79; Legal Practitioner, 1979-90; Elected &#8216; Councilor, Ogoja Local Government Area; ch., Yola Local Government Area, 1991-93;, Elected Member, Nigeria Constitutional Conference, 1994;. Commissioner, Cross River State, Northern Rural Development Commission, 1999-2000; Commissioner, Ministry of Local Government, 2003; Elected Senator of the Federal Republic, 2003; Re-elected, since 2007; mm: Chairman, Cross River State Advisory Committee on. Prerogative of Mercy, Land Allocation and Advisory Committee; Institute of Farm Managers Association; Chairman Senate Committee on Gas; Senate Committee on Science and Technology; Honorary Degree: Doctorate Degree in Administration Philosophy, Institute of Journalism; Management and Continuing Education, Christian University, USA; award: Leadership award of Excellence, Kwame Nkrumah; Best Senator, 2005, Leadership Development Centre, Abuja; Best Council Chairman in Educational Developments and One of the Fifty Most Outstanding Council Chairman, 1992;Ambassador of Peace, International Inter-religious Federation for World Peace, 2003; Political Party: Chairman Defunct Social Democratic Party, Ogoja Local Government Area, 1989-91; Peoples Democracy Party;off: The Senate Chamber, National Assembly Complex, Abuja. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15431","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15431","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\/15431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15431"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}