{"id":17225,"date":"2017-03-23T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17225"},"modified":"2017-05-17T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:07:16","slug":"itata-uko-wilson","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/itata-uko-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"ITATA, Uko Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist, Journalist, Marketing Consultant, Chief Executive Officer, Wilta (Nig) Ltd, Lagos; LGA:Nsit Ubium; Born: Jun 8, 1953; Married to Margaret Bassey; Children: Blessing (14), Emmanuel (II), Edikan (7); Education : Lutheran High Sch, Obot Idim , 1965-67; Salvation Army Sec Sch, Akai, 1968-70, W ASC; Hope Waddell Training In st, Calabar, 1971-72, HSC; Univ of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1975-79, B.Sc (Hons) Econs; Career and Work History: Joined A. UE &#038; Co, a firm of Chartered Accountants, 1980; Moved to Newbreed Organisations Ltd as Asst Editor of The President, a Magazine for Deci sion Makers; Moved to Flour mills ofNig Ltd in 1981 as Management Trainee; Rose to Commercial Manager, 1983; Dispatch manager, Burh am Cement, a division of Flour Mills of Nig Ltd., 1984; Promoted Area Sa les Manager, Flour Mill s, in charge of Eastern States and Bendel, 1984-86; Left Flour Mills for Fumsenod Holdings, 1987-90; Rose to the position of Asst General Manager (Marketing); Opted out to Abbey Group as Administrati0n and General Manager, 1992-94; Set up&#8217; Wilta (Nig) Ltd, a Marketing Consultancy firm , I 994 -present; Publications: Field Sales Management in Nigeria; SAP: A Challenge to Marketing; and numerous articles in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers; Professional Memberships: Mem, Nig Econs Soc; Mem, Nig Marketing Assoc; Mem, Nig Inst of Mgt; Mem, British Inst of Mgt; Religious Affiliation: Christian; Hobbies and Interests: Research,&#8221; Reading; Office: Wilta Nig Ltd, 19 Benedict Sq, Obele Odan, P.O.Box 5561, S.urulere, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2403,2412,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17225","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-economist","category-management-consultant","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17225","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}