{"id":15483,"date":"2017-03-14T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15483"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:16:10","slug":"imoke-dr-samuel-efem","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/imoke-dr-samuel-efem\/","title":{"rendered":"IMOKE, Dr. Samuel Efem"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>physician, poli tician, born January 26, 1912, Itigidi, Obubra, Cross River State; married Comfort Agbonnibuan Imoukhuede 1950, five sons, two daughters; Education: Free Church of Scotland School, Itigidi, 1918, Afikpo Gov ernment Primary School, 1927-29, Govern ment College Umuahia, 1929-32, Yaba Higher College, School of Medicine, 1932- 39; Lagos General Hospital (Refresher Course), 1939-41; Career: Appointed Pu pil Teacher. Presbyterian Primary School, Itigidi, 1926-27; Teacher, Government Pri mary School, Afikpo, 1927-29; Medical As sistant, Nigerian Public Service, 1938-39; Assistant Medical Officer, Port Harcourt General Hospital, 1941-43; Assistant Medi cal Officer, Enugu General Hospital, 1943- 44; Assistant Medical Officer, Kano City Hospital, 1944-45; Medical Officer, Enugu General Hospital, 1946-48; Medical Officer, Lagos General Hospital, 1949; Medical Of ficer, Kano City Hospital, 1949-50; Medical Officer, Mamfe General Hospital, Camerouns, 1951; Private Medical Practice &#038;Supervision of Building Work of Eja Me morial Joint Hospital, Itigidi, 1951-53; Medi cal Officer, Eja Memorial Joint Hospital, Itigidi, 1966-68; Chairman, Biafra Rehabili tation Commission, 1968-70; Medical Super intendent, Eja Memorial Joint Hospital, Itigidi, 1970-73; Senior Medical Superintendent, Eja Memorial Joint Hospital, Itigidi, 1973-76; Retired from active service, 1976 Chairman, Afikpo District Council, 1952 Member, Eastern House of Assembly, 1953. Minister of Labour, Eastern Nigeria, 1954- 56; Minister of Finance, Eastern Nigeria, 1956-61; Minister of Education&#038; Leader of House of Assembly, Eastern Nigeria, 1961- 66; Member, Governing Council, University of Nigeria Nsukka, 1971-80; Member. Gov erning Council, Calabar Polytechnic, 1975- 76; Member, Governing Council, University of Ife, (now Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU), Ile-Ife, 1980-83; Honours: Com mander ofthe Order ofthe Federal Republic, 1964; Ordained Ruling Elder ofthe Presby terian Church of Nigeria; Publication: A Dream Come True. An Autobiography; Hobbies: lawn tennis, football, photography, swimming, farming; Official Address: c\/o Eja Memorial Joint Hospital, Itigidi, Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15483","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15483","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\/15483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15483"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}