{"id":17519,"date":"2017-03-24T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17519"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:26:55","slug":"wachukwu-dr-jaja-anucha","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/wachukwu-dr-jaja-anucha\/","title":{"rendered":"WACHUKWU, Dr. Jaja Anucha"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>barrister-at-law; politician, business man, first Nigerian Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and former Foreign Minister in the civilian regime; Born at Nbawsi Ngwa, Imo State 1918; Education: Government College, Umuahia, Higher College Yaba, New Africa University College, Ghana; Trinity College, Dublin Uni versity; Qualifications: LL.B.;was cal led to the Bar;elected into the Eastern House of Representatives, 1952; resig ned from the NCNC, 1955 and became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Federal House; returned to the NCNC, 1957, appointed Chairman of the Business Committee of the House of Representatives, 1958; ser ved in the Parliamentary Committee on the Nigerianisation of the Federal Public Service, 1958-59; re-elected in to Parliament, December 1959 and was sworn in as first Nigerian Speaker of the House, 1960;appointed Federal Minister of Economic Development. October 1960, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1962-65, Minister of Aviation, 1965-66; went into private legal prac tice and business after the Army take over; Elected NPP member of the Senate for Aba, Imo State; Married and has children; Address: Aba, Imo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17519","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17519","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20710,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17519\/revisions\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17519"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}