{"id":18332,"date":"2017-03-30T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18332"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:23:43","slug":"ukegbu-dr-basil-nnanna","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ukegbu-dr-basil-nnanna\/","title":{"rendered":"UKEGBU, Dr. Basil Nnanna"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA (Hons), Ph.D, educationist, philanthropist, politician, born August 1930, Amafor, Imerienwe, Owerri, Imo State; married Dorothy Nwanyinnaya Amuneke 1953, three sons, one daughter; Education: St John&#8217;s Catholic School, Im erienwe, Our Lady&#8217;s Catholic School, Emekuku, St. Patrick&#8217;s College, Ikot Ansa, Calabar, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan; Former Principal, New Nigerian High School, Mushin, Lagos; Founder and Principal, Owerri Grammar School, 1958; Elected Member, Federal House of Representatives, 1959 and 1964-65; Chair man, Governing Council, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, 1974-76; Founder, St Basil&#8217;s Community Hospital; Coordinator and Founder, Technological and Economic Development Mission (TEDEM) and its af filiate (banned) Imo Technical University, Owerri; Political Paties: member, defunct Na tional Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), 1951-66, Gubernatorial Candidate for Imo State, banned Great Nigerian People&#8217;s Party (GNPP), 1979 and former 1st National DeputyChairman; Former Interim Chairman, the Unregistered Progressive Peoples Party (PPP); Publication: The Imerienwe Experiment; Agrarian Revolution Without Tears; Produc tion In The Nigerian Oil Palm Industry 1900-1954; Hobbies: reading, farming; Official and Home Address: TEDEM, Ukama Amafor, Imerienwe, PMB 1568, Owerri, Imo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,2409,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18332","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-philanthropist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18332","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\/18332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18332"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}