{"id":7927,"date":"2017-01-16T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7927"},"modified":"2017-04-18T15:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:27:18","slug":"egbeogu-daniel-nwokom","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/egbeogu-daniel-nwokom\/","title":{"rendered":"EGBEOGU, Daniel Nwokom"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Wednesday (Orie) 7&#8242;&#8221; January, 1948 State of Origin: Abia Local Government Area: Umuahia North Village\/Town: Isieke- Ibeku Hon Chief (Sir) Daniel Nwokoma Egbeogu KSM. popularly known as Dan Egbeogu ( Aka Ezc Elect) was born on 7&#8243;&#8216; January 1948 to the family ol Pa Benedict U Egbeogu of Okwuta Village in Isieke-Ibeku in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State . Schools Attended \u2022 St Mary&#8217;s Catholic School Isieke-Ibeku 1955 1957 \u2022 St Eugene&#8217;s Catholic School. Sobe in Edo State 1957 1961 \u2022 St Patrick College Oka-Akoko 1962 1964 \u2022 Federal Technical College Yaba Lagos 1964 1967 \u2022 Advanced Course FTC Yaba Lagos 1968-1969 \u2022 Attended Course City and Guilds of London 1970 and made the Full Tech. Certificate \u2022 Attended Course in Hamburg West Germany in Hydro Mechanical Engineering 1980 -1981 Membership of Professional Associations \u2022 Member, Association of Supervisory and Executive Engineers England (MASEE) Job Experiences Worked in many manufacturing and construction companies as Technical Officer, Electrical Engineer and Project Manager \u2022 Chairman and Chief Executive , Dan-Ekpu Electro- Mechanical Engineering Co Ltd a company he founded in 1982 with his late wife as Co-Director \u2022 Elected into the Abia State House of Assembly under the banner of UNCP \u2022 Elected again in 1999 under the banner ofAPP \u2022 Chairman House Committee on Public Petitions Committee Awards and Honours \u2022 Three Chieftaincy titles from his community and beyond \u2022 Knighthood from the church His wife died on 12&#8243;&#8216; July 2000 but the six children are all doing well. Four have already graduated from different universities in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2399,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7927","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-engineer","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7927","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}