{"id":18306,"date":"2017-03-30T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18306"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:30:34","slug":"ukaga-chief-dr-gabriel-kingsley-chidi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ukaga-chief-dr-gabriel-kingsley-chidi\/","title":{"rendered":"UKAGA, Chief (Dr.) Gabriel Kingsley Chidi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, M.A, Ph.D., FNISM, FCAI; educationist, administrator, politician; DOB: November 4, 1939; Hometown: Umualum, Uratta, Owerri North, State of Origin: Imo; Married: Rose Chineye Ogu; No of Children: two sons, four daughter; EDUCATION: Our Ladys School, Emekuku 1945-50; Holy Ghost College, Owerri, 1951-55; Bishop Shanahan Teacher&#8217;s College Orlu, 1956-57; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1960-63; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1971-75; CAREER: Teacher, Mbaise Secondary School, 1958-59; Teacher, Trinity High School, Oguta, 1960; Head, English Department\/Acting Principal, Community Grammar School, Awo-Omamma, Education Officer\/Head, English Department, Government College, Umuahia, 1964-66; Inspector of Education, East Central State, 1966-70; Secretary, Scholarships Board, East Central State, 1971; Inspector Grade 1, Ministry of Education, Enugu, 1972; Graduate Teacher\/Research Assistant, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1972-75; Project Officer, Calgary Board of Education, The University of Calgary, 1974-75; Faculty Adviser, Faculty of Education, The University of Calgary 1975677; aprof. Social Administration, Faculty of Social Welfare, The University of Calgary, 1976-77; Co-ordinator, Competency-Based, Distance Learning Project\/Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare, The University of Calgary, 1977-78; Head, Higher Education Division, Ministry of Education and Information, Owerri, Imo State, 1978-79; Assistant Chief Inspector of Education, Imo State, 1979-81; The Registrar, Imo State University, 1981-85; ch. State Implementation Task Force on the National Policy on Education and Head, Primary Teacher and Adult Education Division, Ministry of Education, Owerri, 1985-90; State co-ordinator, Population and Family Life Education, Imo State, 1989-92; Administrative Secretary, Obioma Ngwa Local Government Area, Imo state, 1990; Sole Administrator, Ideato South Local Government Area, 1991; dir. Planning, Research and Statistics\/ dir. Primary and Secondary, Education Department, Ministry of Education, Owerri, 1991-92; Registrar\/Secretary to the Governing Council\/Secretary to the Senate, Imo State University, since 1992; mm. The Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO 1978-81, The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, 1978 &#8211; 91, the Governing Council of the Nigerian National Teachers Institute, 1978-81 and 1986-92, The Nigerian National Action Committee for International Intervisitation Programme in Educational Administration 1980-92, The West African Examination Council 1982-85; second v-ch. the Nigerian Institute of Administrative Management, The Canadian Association of African Studies, The Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning; member, the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration Australia; f: Nigerian Institute of Sales Management, Nigerian Institute of Corporate Administrators, ah: Federal Government of Nigeria University Scholarship 1960-63; Canadian International Development Agency Graduate Scholarship 1971-73; The University of Calgary Dean of Graduate Studies Dissertation fellowship, 1975. publ: Basic Planning Skills for School Administration, Developing Competencies in problem solving and decision making,Calgary Board of Education, Alberta Canada, 1975; Planning Resources Book, Calgary Board of Education, Alberta, Canada, 1975; Resource Centre Evaluation, Calgary Separate (Catholic) School System 1976;Needs Assessment and student profile Analysis in a competency-Based Distance Learning project. Faculty of Social Welfare, The University of Calgary, 1977; A strategy for Assessing Educational needs in the East Central State of Nigeria, in Education in the Developing countries of the Commonwealth, Research Register 1971-73; Commonwealth Secretariat 1975. pp: defunct United Nigeria Congress Party, 1998. tt: Ebube Dike 1 Ihita Ogada, Owerri, Imo State 1994. hob: swimming, lawn tennis, drama, debate, soccer, boxing, off: Raymond House, 14\/16 Mere Street, Owerri, Imo state, tel: 083-234493, 233930. res: Umualum Uratta, Owerri. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18306","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\/18306","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\/18306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}