OKON, Okokon Asuquo

B.A, MFA, journalist, administrator, Born: April 12, 1963; Place: Calabar, State: Cross River State;m: Esther Maxwell Ekpondia; EDUCATION: St Francis School, Abia, Ikom, Cross River State, 1968-69; Government School, Ikot Okoro, Abak, Akwa Ibom State, 1970-73;West African People's Institute, Calabar, 1974-79; Hope Waddell Training Institution, 1979-80; University of Calabar, 1981-85, 1989-91; CAREER: Correspondent National Assembly, 1981;Administrative Director, National Youth Service, Bauchi State, 1985-86;Production Manager/Editor, Basi and Company, 1987-89; Correspondent The New outlook newspaper, Enugu, 1989;Columnist The Nigerian Chronicle,1991;Features/Arts Editor,The Defender,1991;Branch mgr., Leaders Security Credit and Investment Company Limited, Calabar, Cross Rivers State, 1991; Editor, The Defender, 1991-92; acting. Editor, The Nigerian Chronicle, 1993; Editor, Chronicle on Sunday, 1995; Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief, 1996; gm./ce. Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, 1996; ch. Task Force, Nigerian/Sunday Chronicle, 1993; Executive State Secretary, Nigerian Farmers Organisation, Cross River State chairman. Editorial Board, Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, Calabar! 1993; Nigeria Union of Journalists, Cross River State Council, 1994; director Ministry of Information, Cross River State, since…