{"id":17014,"date":"2017-03-22T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17014"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:23:22","slug":"nwobodo-chief-jim-ifeanyichukwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwobodo-chief-jim-ifeanyichukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"NWOBODO, Chief Jim Ifeanyichukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, politician, born May 9,1940, Lafia, Plateau State; married, has children; Education: Government Secondary School, Awka, St Peter&#8217;s College, Kaduna, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Enugu, University of Ibadan, 1964; Career: Appointed Teacher, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1964-65; joined Shell BP(now Shell Petro leum Development Company), Enugu and Port-Harcourt; Chairman and Executive Director, Link Group International Limited; Chairmanand Executive Director, Jim International Cargo Agencies Limited; Chairman, Universal Insurance Company Limited; Chairman, Premier Brokers Limited; former Chairman, Enugu Rangers International Football Club; former Board member, Anambra State Sports Council; Governor, Anambra State, 1979-83; in political detention and later jailed, January 1984-1988; given presidential pardon, October 10, 1988; appointed Minister of Sports and Youth, 1995-98; Presidential Aspirant, Peoples&#8217; Democratic Party, 1998; Elected Senator, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 &#8211; date; Honorary Degree: Doctorate Degree of Law, Anambra State University of Technol ogy (now Enugu State University of Tech nology), 1991; Political Parties: member, defunct Nigeria Peoples Party; member, defunct Grassroot Democratic Movement; member, Peoples&#8217; Democratic Party, 1998- date; Hobbies: football, lawn tennis, swimming, reading; Official Address: National Assembly Complex, Three Arms Zone, PMB, 141, Garki, Abuja; Address: 51, Norman Williams Street, Ikoyi, Lagos State; Or: Apo Village, Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17014","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17014","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\/17014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17014"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}