{"id":17030,"date":"2017-03-23T05:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17030"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:44:03","slug":"nwodo-chief-john-ugwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwodo-chief-john-ugwu\/","title":{"rendered":"NWODO, (Chief) John Ugwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>politician, businessman, traditional ruler, Igwe Okwuluora II of Ukehe; Born: 1918 at Ukehe, Igbo-Etiti Local Government area, Anambra State; Education: attended primary schools at Ukehe, Makurdi and Enugu from 1924 to 1932; Government College, Umuahia, 1934-38 where he obtained the Cambridge School Certificate; later took a course in local government &#038; economic development at the then University College, Ibadan and read law and economics at Cambridge University; joined the civil service in 1942 as a health offi cer after obtaining a Diploma in Public Health; left in 1954 when elected member of the then Eastern House of Assembly on the platform of the banned National Conven tion of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC; appointed parliamentary secretary, 1954-57; minister of works, 195758; minister of commerce and in dustries, 1958-61; minister of local government, 1961-66; was president Igbo-Etiti County Council, 1958-66 and currently president-general, Nsu kka Federal Union; author of &#8220;Retrospect on Institution of Tra ditional Government&#8221; (1974); Married, has four sons and four daughters; Address (Home): Ukehe House, Ukehe, Nsukka; (Office). 35, Zik Avenue, Uwani, Enugu, Anambra State; Telephone; 3432; Hobby: pig keeping, poultry farming and tennis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,166,389],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17030","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-politics","category-royalty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17030","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\/17030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17030"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}