Birthdays (Orji Uzor Kalu)

Fri, Apr 14, 2017 | By publisher


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Orji Uzor Kalu, politician, businessman and former governor of Abia State, 57, April 21. He attended Christ the King School, Aba and Government College, Umuahia, and University of Maiduguri, Borno State.  Kalu is the chairman of SLOK Holding, the Daily Sun and New Telegraph newspapers in Nigeria, He served as the governor of Abia State, Nigeria from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007. Prior to his election, he served as the chairman of the Borno Water Board and the chairman of the Cooperative and Commerce Bank Limited. Kalu was also a member of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, and the chairman of the PPA Board of Trustees. He was the party’s candidate for president in the April 2007 general election.  Kalu became the youngest Nigerian to receive the National Merit Award from President Ibrahim Babangida, at the age of 26 in 1986. He was selected as the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce’s Industrialist of the Year, and awarded the Humanitarian Award of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka‘s Humanitarian Club, the Volunteer Award of the International Association of Volunteers, the National Merit Award, the EU Special Award in Brussels, and the World Bank Leon Sullivan Award. Kalu has a degree from Abia State University, a Certificate in Business Administration from Harvard University and honorary doctorates from the universities of Maiduguri and Abia State.

—  Apr 24, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT


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