{"id":6396,"date":"2016-11-14T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6396"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:51:29","slug":"ansa-joseph-a-0","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ansa-joseph-a-0\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSA, Joseph A. 0."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Great Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator for Calabar; bom Agust 20, 1940; at Ikot Ansa, Qua Town, Calabar Municipality in Akamkpa Local Government Area. Education: Primary and Secondary: Hope Waddell Training Institute, Cala bar; Excellsior Evening Continuation Schools, 1946-53; G.C.E. 0 &#038; A Levels 1953-55; London School of Accountancy and London Commercial Institute for Certificated Teacher&#8217;s Diploma. Work Experience: (i) Messrs S.C.O.A. General Clerk (1953-54) (ii) Chief Clerk with Lloyd&#8217;s (Insurance) Agency in Port Harcourt (1957-59) (hi) Administrative Manager, John Holt Motors (1959-67). (iv) Eastern Regional Secretary of SCOA Workers Union of Nigeria (1954-58) Professional Training: Professional Training as a full-time Trade Unionist at the Patrice Lumumba Labour Academy, Lagos (1967-68) &#8211; Further professional training in Industrial Relations in co-operation with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) 1968; Further training in Industrial Relations at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 1973; Lec turer in Industrial Relations at the Patrice Lumumba Labour Academy, 1974-75; Appointed by the Federal Government as a member of the Com mittee of trade union experts for the restructuring of Trade Unions in Nige ria, 1977; &#8211; Advanced Industrial Rela tions Course at the University of Iba dan, Nigeria, 1978. Served as GeneralSecretary of seve ral Trade Unions including NEPA &#038; Allied Workers&#8217; Union General Secre tary of Technologists Association of N.E.P.A.; Cadbury Nig. Ltd. African Workers&#8217; Union; Kainji Lake Research Project and Allied Workers&#8217; Union; etc. for twelve years. Foundation member of Lxtral mural studies of Ibadan University in 1955 in Port Harcourt; Founder and Secretary of Qua Peoples&#8217; Society, Port Harcourt; Secretary, Lagos Pres byterian Youth Fellowship (1964-67); Secretary, Board of Governors of Yaba National College, Lagos (1969-72), and member of many religious, chari table and cultural organizations. Publications: Political, Ebulition in a Developing Nigeria, 1964; -Modern Day Unionism in Utility Services, 1977; &#8211; Trade Unions and Govern ment &#8211; Enemies of Friends, &#8211; 1977. Resigned appointment as Full-Time Trade Unionist in November, 1978, preparatory for politics. Chairman and Co-ordinator of Peoples&#8217; Redemption Party (PRP) in Cross River State (November 1978 &#8211; April, 1979. From Akamkpa Local Government Area; Great Nigeria Peoples Party (G.N.P.P.). Married with eight children. Hob bies include: Football, Lawn Tennis and Reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6396","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6396","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\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}