{"id":18553,"date":"2017-03-30T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18553"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:12:29","slug":"uwaifo-solomon-omorodion","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/uwaifo-solomon-omorodion\/","title":{"rendered":"UWAIFO, Solomon Omorodion"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> DFH; electrical engineer; b: May 7, 1932; ht: Benin City; so: Edo; m: Helen Diagbonya Omoregie, 1961; nc: one s, two d; ed:St. Peter&#8217;s CMS School, Benin City, 1939- 46; Yaba Technical Institute (now Yaba College of Technology), 1950- 57; Faraday House Engineering College, London, 1958-61; cr: asst Technical Officer, Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, (now National Electric Power Authority). 1957-58; Central Electricity Generating Board, UK, 1962; Maintenance Engineer, Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, Ikoyi and later Apapa, 1962-63; engn\/mgr., Onitsha, 196365; Planning and Design Engr. Headquarters, 1965-67; snr. Commercial engr. Headquarters, 1968-70; District Manager, Kaduna, 1970-71; Area Manager, North, Kaduna, 1971-73; Representative, Electricity Corporation of Nigeria on Management of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi; Examiner, Electric Power Engineering. 1973-75; ch\/ceo. Omo Uwa Partnership Consulting Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, since 1981; dir. Atlantic Coast Oil and Gas Company Ltd, since 1997; Consulting Engr. University of Benin Teaching Hospital Board, 1974-92;University of Calabar, 1979; University of Ibadan, 1983;Federal Capital Development Authority, 1981-83; Federal Ministry of Communications, 1982-85; State House, Abuja, 1988; National Electric Power Authority, 1988-90;mm: SpecialCommittee for the Re-organisation of the Electric Power Industry, 1978; Presidential Committee for the Reorganisationof National Electric Power Authority, 1983; Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1968; Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, 1969; f: Nigerian Society of Engineers, 1983. h: BestElectrical Engineering Student, Yaba Technical Institute, 1957. publ: Electric Power Distribution Planningand Development, first published 1994, revised 1998,Malthouse\/Hanon Publishers, Lagos; Let Them Bleed, an epistolary novel, Hanon Publishers, Lagos, 1997. hob: writing, photography, off: 11, Maryland Crescent, Maryland, Ikeja. tel: 01-4978022, 01-4960481. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18553","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18553","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\/18553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20762,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18553\/revisions\/20762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18553"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}