{"id":17961,"date":"2017-03-28T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17961"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:58:45","slug":"nzeribe-benjamin-uzoukwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nzeribe-benjamin-uzoukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"NZERIBE, Benjamin Uzoukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Friday (Nkwo) 22nd July, 1927 State ofOrigin: Imo Local Government Area: Oru East Village \/Town: Umuezike,Awo-Omamma ContactAddress: Santaria Lodge, P.O. Box 1Awo-Omamma Imo State ContactTelephone: 234-87-772988 Hon.(Chief)Dr Benjamin Uzoukwu Nzeribe, BA. MA. PhD, DD, D.Litt, KSG, KSM is a foremost Nigeria thinker and innovator in comprehensive and broadbased education. He is an economist and a proficient educationist and proprietor. His foresight and entrepreneurial spirit brought hope, light and education to many who are living today. Education \u2022 St Patrick&#8217;s School Awo-Omamma 1936-1940 \u2022 St Anthony&#8217;s School Umuozu Isu 1941 \u2022 St Charles Teacher Training College Onitsha 1942-19 45 \u2022 California State University. Chico-California USA 1953-1955 \u2022 Stanford University Dalo. Atto California 1955 \u2022 Connell College Ithaca . New York USA. 1955 &#8211; 1958 Work Experience \u2022 Served as a teacher under the Catholic Missions, taught in elementary schools. Secondary and Teacher Training Colleges. 1946 &#8211; 19 52 \u2022 Elected into 1 louse of Parliament 1959- 1966 \u2022 Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman Federal House of Representatives \u2022 Chairman. Orlu County Council 1965-1966 \u2022 Chairman. East Central State Co-operative Association 1971-1975 \u2022 Chairman. Oru Divisional School Board 1971 &#8211; 1973 \u2022 Member. Constituent Assembly. 1977 &#8211; 1978 \u2022 Founder, Awo-Omamma Community Hospital \u2022 Proprietor. Awo- Omamma Comprehensive Secondary School and other institutions \u2022 Chairman Bar Beach Group of Companies Sir Dr Uzoukwu Nzeribe has been at the vanguard of empowerment of the Igbo through a broad based comprehensive education. His agricultural programmes, free health programmes at his private hospital and many other institutions he established offered job. good health facilities, education and opportunities to many. He is a foresighted philanthropist who came to transform Igboland into rich Sacramento of California. He is still an Icon that deserved respect from all. As an elder statesman, we salute him. He is a Catholic to the core and a Knight of St Gregory and a Knight of St Mulumba. I lis hobbies include farming and building. He is happily married with a stable and progressive family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17961","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17961","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\/17961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}