{"id":18563,"date":"2017-03-30T20:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=18563"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:37:39","slug":"toby-gabriel-tamunobiebere-george","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/toby-gabriel-tamunobiebere-george\/","title":{"rendered":"TOBY, Gabriel Tamunobiebere George"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of birth: Sunday (Eke) 29th January 1939 State of Origin: Rivers Village\/Town: Opobo Town Contact Address: 10, Rumuokwurushi Street Borikiri Port tlarcourts Chief Toby’s Compound Opobo Town Government House Port Harcourt (Office ofthe Deputy Governor) His Excellency. Chief Sir Gabriel T.G. Toby is the present Deputy Governor of Rivers Stale Nigeria. GTG Toby as known by his friends is a very brilliant man who right from primary school at Owcrrinia through the four walls ofthe University of Nigeria is imbued with brilliant ideas, prophetic insight and creative mind that moves with confidence. His early strong Christian family background has led him through till today as a man who has stood for integrity and honesty in all his dealings to such a degree that any liar would find GTG Toby difficult lo work with. He is clean in all his dealings. He is respected for that both in the Church and in the Stale. Education \u2022 St Peter’s School Owerrinta Abia State 1945- 1952 \u2022 Okrika Grammar School Okrika 1953- 1957 \u2022 St. Augustine’s Grammar School (SAGS) Nkwerre for HSC 1958-1959 \u2022 University of Nigeria Nsukka 1960- 1963- Pioneer Student ofthe First Autonomous and Indigenous Universily in Nigeria – B.Sc (Hons) Econs \u2022 Diploma Certificate in Advanced Management. 1973 \u2022 Higher Diploma in Top Management. 1977 Work Experience \u2022 Accounts Clerk. Shell BP Nigeria Ltd 1960 \u2022 Salesman of Walls Ice Cream Port Harcourt 1961 \u2022 FactoryAttendant, Flag Aluminium Port Harcourt ( on Vacation Job as an Undergraduate ) 1962 \u2022 Marketing Officer. Eastern Nigerian Marketing Board. 1963 1969 Manager. Rivers Stale Marketing Board. 1970 1972 \u2022 General Manager. Rivers State Marketing Board. 1972 1975 \u2022 Project Manager. Rivers State Amalgamated Brick Industry Project \u2022 General Manager. PABOD Supplies Ltd-Rivers State Agency for Bulk Procurement and Distribution \u2022 Established a Department Store called SUPERBOD STORES-1975 1979 RISONPALM Ltd-Rivers State Government Agency for Development of Oil Palm Plantation and Marketing of iis Products 1979 1980 \u2022 Secretary. Administration. Governor’s Olfice 1980 1994 \u2022 Permanent Secretary (Field Administration in charge of Okrika\/Tai\/Eleme LGA, \u2022 Sole Administrator Okrika\/Oyigbo\/Tai\/Eleme LGA \u2022 Permanent Secretary Special Service in charge of Political \/Protocol and Security. Permanent Secretary. Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, also in charge of Directorate of Food. Roads, and Rural Infrastructures ( DFRRI) \u2022 Director-General. Governor’s Office- in charge of General Services, office ofthe Military Governor \u2022 Later moved to the Ministries of Education and IIealth respectively. \u2022 Sole Administrator at various times of Rivers State Newspapers Corporation and State Liaison Officer for the Establishment of Eleme Petro chemicals Ltd. \u2022 Chairman. Monitoring and Implementation Committee on Rivers Stale 1985 Budget \u2022 Chairman of NYSC State Committee 1984 1985 \u2022 Chairman. Rivers Stale Committee on Application of CSR lo State Parastatals \u2022 Chairman. Board of Managemenl Staff Housing Loan Scheme Other serv ices to the State \u2022 Member. Presidential Committee on Road Transport \u2022 Member. Presidential Committee on Peace Movement in Nigeria ( at various times) \u2022 Director. Nigerian Produce Marketing Co. Lid Lagos \u2022 Director. Bulk Oil Plants of Nigeria Lid Lagos \u2022 Member. Federal Government Technical Committee on Producer Prices \u2022 Member. Rivers State Marketing Board Member. Board of Delta Hotel Ltd. \u2022 Member. Board of Blue Pelican Casino Ltd \u2022 Pabod Oil Palm and Rubber Crumb Crushing Co Ltd. \u2022 Member. Rivers State Sports Council \u2022 Chairman\/Director. Opobo Community Bank \u2022 Director, University of Nigeria General Enterprises Ltd \u2022 Member, Governing Council ofthe University of Nigeria \u2022 Member. N Ya SY Hejoined Party Politics and registered with Peoples Democratic Party and won election as the Deputy Governor ofthe state. He is serving his second term. Membership of Some Professional Bodies Life Member. Nigeria Economic Society \u2022 Member. Nigeria Stock Exchange \u2022 Life Member. Bible Society of Nigeria. \u2022 Fellow. Nigeria Institute Management Fellow. Nigerian Institute of Public Administration As a Christian. Sir G.T. (i. Toby hasdone much for ihegrowth of Christianity in Nigeria particularly in Niger Delta. Heis member ofthe Provincial Synod ofthe Church ofNigeria. Anglican Communion, a member oftheStanding Committee, a MemberoftheCouncil ofKnights etc. He isparticularly a Patron to many youth groups in the church He is married to Dame (Dr) Mrs Christie Adata Gabriel Toby and they are blessed with children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18563","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18563","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}