{"id":22084,"date":"2017-09-27T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=22084"},"modified":"2017-09-27T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:47:16","slug":"elendu-hon-nnenna-ukeje","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/elendu-hon-nnenna-ukeje\/","title":{"rendered":"ELENDU, Hon. Nnenna Ukeje"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Nnenna Ukeje Elendu was born on the 24th October 1969. She had her early education at Federal Government Girls College Owerri where she obtained Senior School Certificate. She bagged a degree in English Language at the University of Benin and a Post Graduate Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos.<br \/>\nPrior to her political career, Ukeje enjoyed a successful career in the hotel management industry. She distinguished herself as a Business Development Manager with HUDSON PETROLEUM. She then moved to PROTEA HOTEL Victoria Island as a Hotel Representative and later as a Director between 2002-2005. Ukeje has stated that her passion for public service comes from her father, late Captain Elendu-Ukeje, who was a decorated pilot with the Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Airways prior to his retirement. Her mother, Rosaline Elendu-Ukeje, served as Chief Judge of the Federal High Court prior to her retirement.<br \/>\nUkeje&#8217;s initial foray into politics garnered her first election in office in 2007 as the Representative for Bende Federal Constituency, Abia State under the People&#8217;s Democratic Party (Nigeria). She was re-elected to this position on May 29, 2011 and also served as the Chairman house committee on foreign affairs. In the 2015 general elections she was also re-elected to the house of representative &#038; once again appointed as the house committee chairman on foreign affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-22084","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/22084","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/22084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}