Chief Philip Chukwuedu Asiodu @ 84

 

 Chief Philip Chukwuedu Asiodu.

Born February 26,1934 in Lagos State, married Eugenia Olajumoke Pereira in the year 1964,they had Three son and four daughter.
Education:-Sacred Heart School Calabar,1939-42,Hope Waddell Training Institution,Calabar,1943-44,St Paul's Catholic
Schiol, Ebute Metta,Lagos,1944-1945,Kings College Lagos,1946-52,Oueen's college,Oxford,UK,1953-56;
Career:-Appointed External Affair Officer,1957-60;First secretary and head of chancery,Nigerian Mission to the United nation,New york, USA,1960-61;Counsellor Nigeria Mission to the United Nation,1961-62;Member,

Organization of Africa Unity provincial Secretariat,Addis Ababa 1963-64,Head of Division,Ministry of External Affair Lagos,1963-64,Deputy Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Lagos Affairs,1964-65;Acting Permanent Secretary,Federal Ministry of Health 1965-66;Permanent Secretary ministry of Industries,1966-71;Ministry of Mines and Power,1971-75;Permanent secretary,Federal ministry of Petroleum and Energy,Lagos 1975; served as Director in various government companies including Nigeria Industrial Development Bank,Nigeria Sugar Company Limited,Nigeria Flour Mills Limited;Chairman Nigeria National Oil Corporation(now Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation)1971-75;Chairman MEDIFE Limited,Lagos,Chairman Summit Furniture Company,Chairman Bendel Feed and Flour Mill Limited;Director,Metal Box Toyo Glass;Director West Africa Milk Company;Director BEECHAM Nigeria Limited;Director SCAN Construction Nigeria Limited;Chairman New Africa Holdings Limited,Kaduna;Director Gulf Oil Company since 1988;Senior Special Adviser on Economic Affairs to the president,1999-2002,Chairman,National Executive Council,Nigeria conservation foundation;Member Governing g council, Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria,Member of Council Bendel State(Now Edo State) institute of Technology,Benin City,Member Of Advisory Committee tropical product institute,London Secretary of petroleum and Mineral resources,1993;Presidential aspirant PDP 1999;
Traditional titles:-Izoma Onyaa of Asaba.
Publication:-Essay on Nigeria Political Economy,Sankon Publishers.
Honorary degree:-Doctorate Degree of Literature by the University of Benin,1991.
Foreign Decoration:-Recipient,Republican Decoration of First Order of the United Arab Republic(Egypt)September 1970..