{"id":17130,"date":"2017-03-23T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17130"},"modified":"2017-05-30T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:07:15","slug":"soribe-dr-festus-ibeawuchi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/soribe-dr-festus-ibeawuchi\/","title":{"rendered":"SORIBE, Dr. Festus Ibeawuchi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D; engineer; b: September 11, 1941 Jit: Enugu;so: Enugu; m: Jovita Ngozi Nwohu;nc: two s, five d. ed: Our Udy&#8217;s School, Emekuku, 1950-56; St. Patrick&#8217;s College, Calabar, 1957-63; Ahmadu BelloUniversity, Zaria, 1964-65; California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California, 1965-68; Ohio State University, Columbia, Ohio, 1968-72.cr: Agricultural Engineer Trainee, Kern County Und Company, California, 1966-68; worked part-time, Ohio State River Basin Development Project, 1969-72; Project Engineer, Malcolm Pirnie Incorporated (consulting engineers), New York, 1972-76; snr. Engineer, South Chad Irrigation Project, (MRT consulting engineers (Nigeria) Ltd\/Sir M. MacDonald &#038; Partners, 1976; Manager, Donga River Basin prefeasibility study for Upper Benue River Basin Development Authority, 1977; dir: MRT Consulting Engineers (Nig.) Ltd., 1978; Deputy md: MRT Consulting Engineers (Nigeria) Ltd., 1981; asst General Manager (engineering), Imo River Basin and Rural Development Authority, Owerri, Imo State, 1985; asst gm. (planning and design), Anambra- Imo River Basin Development Authority, 1987; dir: Planning, Research and Statistics, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Abuja, 1990, Planning, Research and Statistics, Ministry of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, 1996-99; mm: International Commission on Drainage and Irrigation, 1982; ch: Nigerian Society of Engineers, Abuja branch. 1994-96; Public Enlightenment\/Publication Committee of the National Sub-Committee of Anambra-Imo River Basin Development Authority; Representative of the Anambra-Imo River Basin Development Authority on the National Technical Committee on Water Resources, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1968, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1974; f: Nigerian Society of Engineers, J990; Licensed Professional Engineer, States of Ohio, Indiana, USA. sc: Kiwanis Club International, hob: listening to music, watching football. pha: Enugu, Enugu State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17130","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17130","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17130"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}