{"id":6167,"date":"2016-11-09T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=6167"},"modified":"2017-04-11T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:49:17","slug":"azuru-blessing-chinyere-onyekachi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/azuru-blessing-chinyere-onyekachi\/","title":{"rendered":"AZURU, Blessing Chinyere Onyekachi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: Saturday (Afo) 25″‘ December, 1948 State of Origin: Abia Local Government Area: Umuahia North Milage\/ Town: Umuokehi Okpuala Hon Chief Mrs Blessing Onyekachi Chinyere Azuru (.IP) is a woman of many parts – a business woman, diplomat, legislator, politician, women leader, humanitarian and above all. an academic who has spent all her life in the service of her people and the country in general. Her primary concern is service to all. Born on 25 December 1948 to the family of Sir and Lady Samuel Azuru of Umuosu Okaiuga Nkwoegwu in OIiului Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia Stale. Education \u2022 St Michael’s Primary School Okaiuga. Nkwoegwu \u2022 Ibeku High School (formerly Anglican Grammar School Umuahia) WASC. Her leadership as well as spirit ofservice came outopenly at Ibeku High School when she was appointed a school prefect. Shetravelled tothe United Stales ofAmerica for further studies and spent a few years inNew York where she had herfirst degree in Business Administration and later a Masters Degree in Marketing. She is married to Engineer Chief Godson Azuru of Umuokehi Okpuala in ihe same Umuahia North Local Government Area. They are both blessed with four children three boys and one girl. Work Experience Blessing was the President ofAfrican Cultural Association in USA. She workedas an Administrative Staff of the Nigerian Consulate in NewYork, USA. \u2022 She was also theChairman ofthe Board of Directors ofa social cultural organisation. Hon Chief Mrs Azuru represents Aba North Constituency and has submitted and supported anumber ofBills and papers on matters ofvital importance to Abia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,166,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6167","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-politics","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6167","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}