MFR, CFR, Administrator, industrialist, insurance consultant businessman, born March 20, 1931, Asaba, Delta State; married Theresa A. Ibike 1962, nine children; <\/p>\n
Education: Government Elementary School, Lagos, Ilesha Grammar School, Lagos Grammar School;
\nCareer: Appointed trainee pilot, Operations Department, Nigeria Airways, 1947-48; trainee Insurance Inspector and later Manager, Norwich Union insurance Company (BEWAC), Lagos, 1948-52; established Dyson and Diket (Insurance Brokers), 1953; appointed Insurance Inspector, Pearl Assurance Company, Holborn, London; Manager, C.T. Bowring (Insurances), London; Manager, Swiss General Insurance Company, Zurich, Switzerland, 1954-58; Assistant Director, C.T. following (Insurance), Nigeria Office, 1958; became Proprietor and Managing Director, African Underwriters Limited; Managing Director, African Prudential Insurance Company Limited, 1966; Director, Robert Bradford Group of Companies (Lloyds) – Odogwu Bradford Savill, Limited, 1967-70; Chairman, Odogwu Group of Companies Limited, since 1970; appointed Chairman, African Prudential Insurance Company Limited, 1976; Chairman, SIO Industries Limited, Asaba, since 1988; Chairman, Sodik Electrical Engineering, Nigeria Lines Limited and Polyropylene Plant, Asaba; Director, Sanyo (Nigeria) Limited and National Fertilizer Company, Onne; Chairman, Newbreed Magazine and Roc International Hotels, Jos; Chairman, The Post Publishing Company Limited, Apapa, Lagos; Publisher, The Post Express Newspapers; associate, Chartered Insurance Institute, London; elected underwriting member, Lloyds; fellow, Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers; <\/p>\n
Honorary Degree: Honourary Doctorate begree of Law, Lincoln University, USA, 1997. Honourary Doctorate Degree of Law, Imo State University, Owerri, 1999.
\nNational Honour: Commander of the order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 2004<\/p>\n
Traditional Title: Ide-Ahaba of Asaba, Official Address: Odogwu Group of Companies, 4- 6 Ikoyi Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; Telephone: 01-683-736. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24490,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8091","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8091","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8091\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}