{"id":6582,"date":"2016-11-15T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6582"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T09:32:55","slug":"asika-dr-anthony-ukpabi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/asika-dr-anthony-ukpabi\/","title":{"rendered":"ASIKA, Dr. (Aje) Anthony Ukpabi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, MA, Ph.D, political scientist, administrator, born June 28,1936, Jos, Plateau State; married Chinyere Edith Ejiogu 1965, one son, two daughters; Education: St Patrick&#8217;sCollege, Calabar, 1949, Edo College, Benin City, 1951, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1956-61, University of Cali fornia,Los Angeles,USA, 1961-65;Career: Appointed Clerk, Onitsha Town Council, 1953; Clerk, Department of Marketing and Exports, Lagos; Clerk, Northern Nigeria Marketing Board, Kano; appointed Lecturer in Political Sociology, University of Ibadan, 1965-67; Administrator, East Central State ofNigeria, 1967-75; member, Supreme Mili tary Council ofNigeria, 1970-75; Chairman, Technical Committee on the Review of the National Population Census of 1973 (1973- 75); Commissioner for Economic Develop ment and Reconstruction, East Central State, 1974-75; Chairman, Bladi Property and In vestments Company Limited, since 1975; Chairman, Sigma Systems and Communica tions Limited, since 1975; Director, ORS Hospital Projects Nigeria Limited; Director, Guardian Press Limited and GuardiarrNewspapers Limited, since 1983; Chairman ofthe Board, Industry SkodaLimited, since 1985; Team Leader Presidential Delegation to Niger, Chad and Cameroon for Negotiations on the Re-opening of Nigerian Borders, 1985; Director, Chessbrough ProductsIndus try Limited, since 1986; President, African Students&#8217; Association, Southern California, USA, 1963-67; Traditional Titles: Ajie Onitsha, since 1985, including 31 others from various communities in Nigeria; .Awards: Recipient: Prizeman in Economics, Univer sity College, Ibadan, 1960; Canada Council Non- Resident Fellowship in Economics, 1961; RockefellerFoundation Scholar, USA, 1961-65; USNational Honours Fraternity in Social Sciences, 1963; Foreign Honours: Ordre Nationale, Republic of Senegal; Or der ofthe Two Niles, First Class, Sudan, Oth ers from Mauritania and Togo; Honorary Degrees: Awarded Doctor of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, December 1970; Doctor of Letters, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, December 1971; Hobbies: tennis, word games, music, literature; Official Ad dress: Bladi Propertyand Investments Com pany Limited, c\/o Sigma House, 12, Ribadu Road, South WestIkoyi,LagosState.Home: Iba Ajie, 17, Tasia Road, Onitsha, Anambra State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6582","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6582","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\/6582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}