{"id":16389,"date":"2017-03-18T01:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16389"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:27:14","slug":"zuofa-amatari","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/zuofa-amatari\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuofa, Sen. Amatari"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Party of Nigeria Senator representing Rivers 111 i.e. Brass, Sagbama and Yenagoa Local Government areas; born November 23, 1923 in Kiama Yenagoa Local Government area; Education: P.M. School, Kaiama, read Standard VI, 1936; Baptist Academy, Lagos, 19371938, read Class 1 and 2; King&#8217;s Col-&#8216; lege, Lagos, 1939-1942, passed Senior Cambridge, December 1942; Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio, U.S.A. 1949-1953, Graduated B.A. Econo mics, June 1953;New York University New York, U.S.A. 1953-1955, Gradua ted M.A. Economics, June 1955. An Economist by training; Admini strative Officer for 20 years; Retired Voluntarily asPermanent Secretary on August 21, 1975. Experience: 3rd Class Clerk, P.W.D. Lagos, 1943-44; Inspector of Lines, Posts and Telegraphs Department, 1945-1949; Administrative Officer, Federal and State Services, 1956-1975; Secretary, Niger Delta Development Board, 1963-67. (On posting as a Federal Officer); Transferred to Rivers State Public Servicein May, 1969; Pro moted Permanent Secretary May 1, 1971; (served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministries of Trade and Industry Economic Development, Finance and Education); Commissioner, Rivers State Public Service Commission, November 1975-March, 1977; Chair man, Niger Delta Basin Development Authority from April, 1977 to July 6, 1979. Married, with children. Hobbies: Badminton, swimming. Social Activities: Chairman and Foundation Member, Ijaw Youths Literary Circle, Lagos 1939; Secretary and Foundation Member, Ijaw Welfare Union of Nigeria, 1940; Member, Rivers State Movement and many other related organisations fighting for the creation of the Rivers State; and Member, Rivers State Study Group, Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16389","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16389","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20646,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16389\/revisions\/20646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}