{"id":8764,"date":"2017-01-25T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8764"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:26:32","slug":"ellah-senator-francis-john","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ellah-senator-francis-john\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLAH, Senator Francis John"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, ad ministrator, industrialist, politician, born October 4, 1927, Omoku, Rivers State; mar ried Patricia Ireju Obowu 1956, three sons; Education: St John&#8217;s School, Onitsha, St John&#8217;s School, Imo River, St Mary&#8217;s and St Michael&#8217;s School, Omoku, Christ the King School, Aba, 193642, Holy Family College, Abak, St Patrick&#8217;s College, Ikot Ansa, Cala bar, 194346, University College (now Uni versity of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1948-51, Gradu ate School of Public Administration, New YorkUniversity, 1960-61 1975;Career: Ap pointed Teacher, Ibibio State College, Ikot Ekpene, 1947; Clerk, UAC, Port Harcourt, 1948; Teacher, Holy Family College, Abak, 1949-50; Teacher, Oriwu College, Ikorodu, 1952; Teacher, Oduduwa College, lle-Ife, 1952-54; Assistant District Officer,Afikpo, 1955-56; Assistant District Officer, Ikot Ekpene, 1956-57; Assistant District Officer, Arochukwu, 1957;AssistantDistrictOfficer, Umuahia, 1957-58;DistrictOfficer, OrluDi vision, 1958-59; Second Secretary,Nigerian Embassy, Washington D.C, 1959-60; Officer in Charge, Nigerian Students in USA, Nige rian Consulate, New York, 1960; First Sec retary, Economic and Finance Matters, Ni gerian Embassy, Washington D.C, 1961; acting Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Enugu, 1962; Protocol Officer, Premier&#8217;s Office, Enugu, 1962; Divisional Officer, Enyong, 1962; Higher Assistant Sec retary, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Enugu, 1963; Senior Divisional Officer, Aba, 1963- 66; Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Enugu, 1966; Deputy Permanent Secretary, Military Governor&#8217;s Office, Enugu, 1966-67; Deputy Permanent Secre tary, Ministry of Local Government, Enugu, 1966-67; Special Representative, London Office, 1967-68; Administrative head, Min istry of Transport and Communication, East ern Nigeria, 1968-69; Secretary, Atrocities Commission, 1969-70; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Local Govern ment, Rivers State, 1970-71; Registrar, Col lege (now University) of Science and Tech nology, Port Harcourt, 1971-75; Secretary to the Military Government and Head of Civil Service, Rivers State, Port Harcourt, 1975- 78; Chairman, Rural Development Associa tion, Rivers State, 1975-78; Chairman, Chief J.W. Ellah Sons and Company Limited and Chairman, Ellah Lakes (Fish Farms) Limited, since 1978; Senator ofthe Federal Republic ofNigeria, 1979-81; Resigned voluntarilyon principlefromthe Senate in 1981; Presiden tial aspirant, Peoples Democratic Party, 1998; member\/president, Alliance Francaise, Port Harcourt; member, Royal Over-Seas League,since 1987; fellow, Institute of Di rectors, UK\/Nigeria; Traditional Title: Eze Ogba Nwadei Ogbehi; Political Parties: member, defunct Nigeria People&#8217;s Party; member, Peoples Democratic Party, 1998- date; Honours: Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great, 1976; Eqvitem Ordinis Sancti Gregorii Magni;Recipient, Doctorof Laws, University of Port-Harcourt, 1990; recipient, Doctor ofLaws, University ofSci ence &#038; Technology, Port Harcourt, 1991; Publications: Rural Development Hand book, 1966; The Unfinished Motion, Eilali and Sons, Port Harcourt, 1982; Nigeria and States Creation, Ellah and Sons, Port Har court, 1983; Nigerian Society and Governance, Port Harcourt, 1988; AH Ogba &#8211; A History ofthe Ogba People, Fourth Dimen sion, Enugu, 1995; Hobbies: Music, golf, writing, reading, fishing; Official Address: 13B, Forces Avenue, PO Box 346, Port Harcourt; Telephone: 084-233938,335545; Home: 13A, Forces Avenue, PO Box 346, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.Telephone: 084- 233938, 334422;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,307,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8764","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-industrialist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8764","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\/8764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}