{"id":16077,"date":"2017-03-16T17:51:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16077"},"modified":"2017-06-06T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:21:51","slug":"nshii-christopher-c","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nshii-christopher-c\/","title":{"rendered":"NSHII, Christopher C"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: November 1949 State of Origin: Ebonyi Contact Address: Ebonyi North Contact Telephone: 234-43-221-567 HH Senator Christopher C. Nshii is a professional farmer and an outstanding Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was a teacher and a man who has shown much interest in the development of people and places without recourse to ethnic background, religious or political affiliation. School attended \u2022 St Enda&#8217;s Secondary School Iboko Abakaliki WASC Grade One Profession \u2022 Established as a farmer on leaving the grammar school. Began as a subsistenl farmer, rose to a professional, commercial and large scale industrialized farmer. Employed many young people in his farms and created job opportunities for many people. Sole proceeds to many commercial companies for export and marketing. Political Career \u2022 Registered as a member of Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) \u2022 Won election as Local Government Chairman- developed the area in terms ofinfrastructure, social amenities, provision of jobs and improvement of living standard of the people in the Local Government Area \u2022 Improved Agriculture in the area, provided healthy seeds for the farmer, implements and encouraged many farmers to go commercial with loans provided for this. Renovated the Local Government Secretariat \u2022 Appointed Director of National Poverty Eradication Project- for his good services in the LGA as Chairman. That boosted his chances and opportunities. \u2022 Contested for Senate Seat and won Ebonyi North Senatorial District. \u2022 Has made enormous contributions to the debates in the Senate and has given his Senatorial District very strong reasons to trust his leadership and representation of them. He is loved and admired by his people. He is married and blessed with six children. He has given a very powerful sense of leadership to his people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505,2413,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16077","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist","category-farmer","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16077","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\/16077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16077"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}