{"id":8477,"date":"2017-01-20T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8477"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T11:28:52","slug":"ekpo-chief-dr-margaret-udo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekpo-chief-dr-margaret-udo\/","title":{"rendered":"EKPO, Chief (Dr.) Margaret Udo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OON, CFR; home economist, designer, political activist; b: July 27, 1914; ht: Creek Town, Calabar, lga: Odukpani, so: Cross River; m: John Udo Ekpo 1940; nc: two s; ed: Girls Institute, Creek Town, Calabar, 1926-31; Edgerly Commercial College, Calabar, 1933-1934; Rathime School of Domestic Economics Dublin, Ireland, UK, 1946-48. cr: Taught at Girl&#8217;s Institute, Creek Town, Calabar, St. George&#8217;s School, Aba, and the Aman Great Aim School, Aba; teacher, Holy Trinity School, Calabar, 1934-35; Domestic Science Teacher, St. Michael&#8217;s School, Aba, Imo State, (now Abia State), 1935-45, Founder and Proprietor, Windsor Domestic Science and Sewing Institute, Aba, 1948-66; (nominated mem. House of Chiefs, Eastern Region, 1954; mem. Governing Council of the Yakubu Gowon Centre, Obong&#8217;s Council of Chiefs, Society of Gynaecology &#038;Obstetrics&#8217; of Nigeria, Institute of Governance and Social Research, Nigerian Delegation, Constitutional Conferences, London and Lagos, 1953, 1957, 1958 and 1959; House of Assembly, Eastern Region, 1960-66; Women Representative, World Women&#8217;s International Domestic Federation Conference, Moscow, USSR now Soviet Russia, 1963; Political Detainee, 1966-70; Proprietor and Instructor, Mary&#8217;s Boutique, Lagos, 1971; ah: Honoury Doctorate Degree of Letters (D.Litt) Honours Causa by theUniversity of Calabar, April 8, 1995, Certificate of honour, Home Economics Teachers Association of Nigeria (HETAN), 1996; Government Secondary School, Henshaw Town Old Students Association, Calabar; nh: Officer of the Order of the Niger, 1992 and Commander of the Federal Republic Nigeria; Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), awards: First African Woman by the African Women International Club, 1994; Canaan City Club, Winner Karis Award by The Household of God 2001; The Federal Government named the Calabar Airport after her, 2001; publ: European Women As I See Them A pamphlet,Magaret Ekpo Lioness in Nigerian Politics, by Dr. Stella Effah-Attoe and Solomomn Jaja&#8217;s lectures Dept of History; pp: defunct National Council of Nigerian Citizens, 1948-66; mem.Parliament, Aba Urban North, 1960-66; sc: Life Patron, National Council of Women Societies, Grand Patron, Cross River State Women in Politics, life patron. Women in Nigeria (WIN); hob: photography, sports, reading;off: Flat A4, Doctors Quarters, Kasuk Village, Ikot Ishie, P.O. Box 1607, Calabar, Cross River State; tel: 087-233499, Creek Town, Calabar, Cross River State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[505,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8477","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-activism","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8477","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\/8477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8477"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}