{"id":7743,"date":"2017-01-12T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7743"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:15:26","slug":"briggs-chief-dr-david-t","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/briggs-chief-dr-david-t\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIGGS, Chief (Dr.) David"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> JP, B.Sc; economist, politician; b: 1964; p: Abonnema; Iga: Akuku-Toru; so: Rivers; married; has children; cd: Nyemoni Grammar School, Abonnema; University ofPort Harcourt, 1985-90; enThird Republic Supervisory Councillor. Degema Iga: Works and Transport; Agriculture and Community Development; co-ordinator, International Fund forAgricultural Development; pioneer ch.Akuku-Toro Iga, 1991; Hon. comm. for Works, 1999; comm. for Water Resources, since 2003; h: Best Local Government ch. bytheRivers State Government, 1992; StaffWelfare Merit Award byNigerian Labour Congress, 1992; Outstanding comm.. ofthe year, National Union of Journalism Rivers State Council, 2000; Conferment of Justice ofthePeace byRivers Government; hd: Doctorate degree in Public Administration byAll Saints University ofAmerica Inc. 2002; tt:Chieftaincy title byRumuewhorodegu, Emohua Iga. Rivers State. BRIGGS, Prof. Nimi Dimkpa; MBBS, MD; obstetrician and gynaecologist; b:February 22,1944; ht:Port Harcourt,so: Rivers; m: DataOgi, 1972; nc: one s, three d; ed: Nyemoni School, Abonnema, 1948-56; Baptist High School, Port Harcourt, 1957-61; Government College, Umuahie 1962-63; UniversityofLagos., 1964-69. cr: Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ahmadu Bello University, 1976-79; Snr. Lecturer, 1979-80; Head, Department ofObstetrics and Gynaecology, University ofPort HarcourtTeaching Hospital; Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist Universityof Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital; formerly v-c, University of Port Harcourt; ch.Committee onVice Chancellors; mm.Royal College ofObstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1975; f. West African College ofSurgeons, 1977; National Post-graduate Medical College, 1979; International College of Surgeons, 1984; hob: table tennis, lawn tennis, off:Department ofObstetrics and Gynaecology, University of PortHarcourt, Rivers State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7743","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7743","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\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}