{"id":16431,"date":"2017-03-20T06:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16431"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:17:26","slug":"nwakanma-eric-acho","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwakanma-eric-acho\/","title":{"rendered":"NWAKANMA, Eric Acho"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Origin: Abia Local Government Area: Obingvva Village\/Town: Umuorji-Ohanze Contact Address: Abia State House of Assembly, Umuahia Hix Excellency Hon Eric Acho Nwakanma was born lo the family of Elder and Mrs S O. Nwakanma of Umuorji in Ohanze Autonomous Community. Obingvva Local Government Area of Abia Stale. Education \u2022 University of Lagos B.Sc Biochemistry 1982 \u2022 University of Lagos M.Sc. Medical Biochemistry 1985 Jobs and Employment Experience Assistant Lecturer. University of Lagos 1985\/1986 \u2022 Area Manager . Eastern Zone with Chemoch Laboratories Nigeria Ltd.(now Chemiron International) 1987 1990 \u2022 Chief Executive. Eric Jack Holdings \u2022 Chairman Acho Nwakanma Foundation \u2022 Legislative Member of the State House of Assembly Abia State 1999 \u2022 Chairman House Committee on Finance and Economic Planning 1999 2003 \u2022 Chairman House Committee on Boundary and Security Matters 2003 date \u2022 Former Deputy Speaker. Abia State House of Assembly. \u2022 Currently. He is the Deputy Governor of Abia State 2006 Community Developments \u2022 Supply of Sports Equipment to secondary schools in Obingvva Local Government Area \u2022 Sponsors Annual Sports Competition among Secondary Schools in the Local Government Area since 2000 \u2022 Founder and Sponsor of Abia State Comets Football Club- a dvnamic young club that is coming up in the National Amateur League Competitions. \u2022 Pioneered. Sponsored and Financed OHANZE CONGRESSSOCCER TOURNAMENT- now an annual event. \u2022 Co-Sponsor of First Abia All Stars Football Festival in 2003 \u2022 Already given over 30 scholarship awards to Abia Indigenes in various Universities in Nigeria \u2022 Regular Supply of School Equipment &#8211; books, laboratory\/science equipment, furniture, etc to schools (Primary and Post Primary ) in Obingvva Local Government Area \u2022 Through Acho Nwakanma Foundations, he has given Interest Free Loans to over hundred women in the Local Government to start them off some private business- runs an interest free Loan Scheme \u2022 Pioneered rural water scheme, rural electricity projects and rural industries for self reliance. \u2022 Empowered the Youths by providing Interest Free Loan to purchase Motorcycles for local commercial uses. Awards and Honours \u2022 Respected all through the state as a great philanthropist establishing long term project for self-reliance. \u2022 In return, he has been honoured by many organisations and individuals and communities. Best Football Promoter of the Year Award 2003 \u2022 Sports Writers Association of Nigeria ( SWAN) Prize for sponsoring football tournaments and clubs. 2001 \u2022 I lonoured by Abia State Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the Title \u2022&#8217;Ambassador of Culture and Tourism&#8221; \u2022 1las over 20 chieftaincy titles from many communities even outside lgboland prominent among them are: \u2022 AnyimNdiNgwaoflbeme Ancient Kingdom \u2022 Ifagwa ofNgwa-ukwu \u2022 Egbe-evughi-Nkume I ofObingwa \u2022 Dike Oha I ofAbayiAncientKingdom \u2022 Eny-ka Nwanne oflheku \u2022 Ezinwanne Ndi-Bende ofBende \u2022 Akwa Akwuru ofNenu Kingdom \u2022 EbubeDike II ofIsiala Umuimenyi KingdomBende \u2022 Enyi Oha I Obulo Ochiogu Vmunneoehi Hon Eric Acho Nwankanma is happily married and they are blessed with four children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,307,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16431","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-industrialist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16431","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\/16431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}