{"id":7749,"date":"2017-01-12T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7749"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T10:53:25","slug":"obihara-dr-chikwe-h","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obihara-dr-chikwe-h\/","title":{"rendered":"OBIHARA, Dr. Chikwe H"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born November 30, 1927 ui Owerri South, Imo State. Education&#8217; Government College, Umuahia, 1940; Christ the King&#8217;s College (CKC) Onitsha, 194144; Higher College, Yaba, 1945-47; University College, Ibadan, 1948; University of Leicester, England, 1952-56; Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, 1956-58; Uni versity of Reading, England, 196669. Qualifications: Diploma in Science Teaching, Associate of Imperial Col lege of Tropical Agric; B.Sc. (Special) Chemistry; Ph.D. (Soil Chemistry); Fellow of Royal Institute of Chemis try; member of several science socie ties; Employment: Science Master CKC Onitsha, 1948-52; Soil Chemist, Agricultural Research Station Umudike, in Umuahia, Imo State, 1958-63; Principal Research Officer and Head of Agric. Chemistry and Social Science Division, Federal Dept. of Agric Research, Ibadan, 1963-69; Senior Lec turer and Head of Soil Science, Uni versity of Sierra-Leone, 1969-71; De puty Director of Agric Research, Nigeria, 1971-72; Director of Agric Research, Nigeria, 1972-75; member of governing council of several agric research institutes. Managing Director, Agricola Consultants, 1976-79; Chairman, Agric Development Corporation, Imo State, 1977-78; married; elected NPP member for Owerri South in House of Representatives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7749","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7749","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}