{"id":10020,"date":"2017-02-08T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10020"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:24:29","slug":"okafor-dr-johnathan-chukwuemeka","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okafor-dr-johnathan-chukwuemeka\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAFOR, Dr. Johnathan Chukwuemeka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, Ph.D, forest conservator, born October 22, 1934, Onitsha, Anambra State; married Patience Ebelechukwu Odunukwe 1963, three sons, one daughter; EDUCATION: Central School, Onitsha, 1940-48, Merchants of Light Secondary School, 1949-53, School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1954-55, Dundee Technical College, Scotland, 1958-59, Aberdeen University, 1959-62, Oxford University, 1964-65, University of Ibadan, 1975-81; CAREER: Appointed Forest Assistant, Forest Research, Ibadan, 1954-58; Lecturer, School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1962-63; Research Officer in- Charge Taxonomy and Forest Herbarium, 1962-66; Senior Research Officer, School of Forestry, Ibadan, 1966-75; Conservator of Forest, Forestry Commission, Enugu, 1975- 77: Assistant Chief Conservator of Forests, 1978-80; Deputy Chief Conservator of Forest (in charge of Forestry Developments and Investigation Branch), 1980-84; Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests, Forestry Commission Headquarters, Enugu, 1984-56; appointed Chief Conservator of Forests, Forestry Commission Headquarters, 1986; Part-time Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, since 1971; fellow, Linnean Society of London, 1965: member, Advisory Board, International Tree Crop Journal, UK, since 1950; member, International Horticultural Society, 1982; Traditional Title: Ezike Nnabuenyi; Publications: Over 50 scientific papers in national and international journals; Hobbies: animal rearing, music, dancing; Home: 1 Works Road, GRA, Enugu, Anambra State; Telephone: 042-336-965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10020","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10020","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}