{"id":26373,"date":"2020-11-12T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=26373"},"modified":"2020-11-12T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T13:51:25","slug":"ewa-henshaw-sen-bassey","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ewa-henshaw-sen-bassey\/","title":{"rendered":"EWA-HENSHAW, Sen Bassey"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bassey Ewa-Henshaw is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Cross River South constituency of Cross River State in 2003, and was reelected in 2007.<br \/>\nBassey Ewa-Henshaw was born on 4 May 1943. He attended the Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Oron, Akwa Ibom State, 1957 &#8211; 1961. He attended New York University (1968\u20131974), obtaining a B.Sc and an M.Sc in Business.[1] He worked at Chase Manhattan Bank and Citibank, and became the first indigenous Managing Director of Agbara Estates Limited in 1984.[2] Other public positions before running for the senate included Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ecobank C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Council Member of the University of Ibadan.<br \/>\nCross River governor Donald Duke backed Bassey Ewa Henshaw in the 2003 elections.[3] Running as a People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Bassey Ewa-Henshaw was elected as senator in the 5th (2003\u20132007) National Assembly representing Cross River South Senatorial District, and was reelected in April 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-26373","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26373","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\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26373"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=26373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}