{"id":8318,"date":"2017-01-18T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8318"},"modified":"2017-04-19T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:53:03","slug":"ekeh-emma-saint-george","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekeh-emma-saint-george\/","title":{"rendered":"EKEH, Emma Saint George"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Friday (Afo) 11&#8242;&#8221;December, 1953 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Mbaitolu Village\/Town: Amuburu Ubomiri Contact Telephone: 234-8033570568 Chief EmmaSt George Ekeh was born on 11th December 1953 in Amuburu Ubomiri. Owerri Imo State. Education He attended the following Institutions \u2022 St Mary&#8217;s Catholic School Ubomiri \u2022 Christ The King&#8217;s School Aba \u2022 St Saviour&#8217;s Secondary School Umuaka. Orlu \u2022 Panjab University Chandigarg India BSc Econ. 1984 \u2022 Filtrine Institute Hirrisville. New Hamphshire USA Public Responsibilities and Job Experience and New Breakthroughs As an American trained Hydrologist. Chief Ekeh serves as: \u2022 Consultant to the US Embassy for seven years \u2022 Consultant to the German Embassy for 3 years During the period, he introduced the use of Ultra Violet Lights as Sterilization Factors in Bulk Water Processing for the first time in Nigeria against the use of Chlorine, which is a caseinogens in portable water processing. \u2022 Introduced sale of pure water in Satchel in order to reduce the cost of bottled water. \u2022 Worked closely with Food and Drugs Administration in the Introduction and Maintenance of standards in Pure Water processing a huge industry today to the tune of N35bilIion turnover annually \u2022 One of the three main Distributors of Dell Computers in Nigeria \u2022 First to introduce InternetTrade Fair in the whole world of computer- a visual trade fair designed to project Nigerian Organisations. Manufacturers andGovernments to the world through his Website Omimi4u.com. Heintroduces Internet Serviceswitha strongconcentration on Web designs and Web Services. Social Political Contributions and services \u2022 Chief Ekeh is a founding member ofCommittee for Unity and Understanding (CUU) which in partnership with CUU West.CUU South-South, and CUU Middle Belt teamed to form NADECO \u2022 Chairman. Membership and Mobilization Committee for Ndigbo in Lagos \u2022 Member of Izunwanne and Ndigbo Lagos \u2022 Founding Member and National General Secretary of Pan- Ndigbo Forum (PNF) which alongside AREWA Consultative Forum and others formed what metamorphosed into PDP- Peoples&#8217; Democratic Parly. \u2022 A Founding Member of PDP. He was in the Publicity Committee with the late Chuba Okadigbo. Prof Jerry Gana and others. \u2022 Currently. Chairman Membership and Mobilization Committee of Ndigbo in Lagos- an umbrella of all Igbo Associations. Town Unions and Professionals in Lagos which today is one of the strongest member of the Ohaneze. Ilobbies &#8211; Chief Ekeh loves to play music. \u2022 Some of his released works have enjoyed airtime both in Nigeria and Europe. \u2022 As an artist, he has performed life in India and the United States Publications \u2022 Written four controversial books not yet published because of their contents for instance in one he was arguing that there is no death in the universe- it is just a question of change of one form ol&#8221;energy force into another formation. Honours and Awards \u2022 Many chieftaincy awards and accolades for instance the Omimi of Nara Unateze in Enugu Slate, the Baba Laje of Agidingbi. Lagos State. He is a courageous and bold fighter for justice. A friendly man who knows how to stand for the oppressed. I le believes that the counlry is blessed with gifted people but they arc full of corruption. He is a devout Christian and married with two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8318","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8318","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\/8318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}