{"id":10027,"date":"2017-02-08T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10027"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:25:35","slug":"okafor-dr-lewis-ikechukwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okafor-dr-lewis-ikechukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAFOR, Dr. Lewis Ikechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, agronomist, born January 8, 1934; married Edna Chiesokwu Chiozie 1955, two sons, two daughters; Education: Dennis Memorial Grammar School, 1943-47, School of Agriculture, Ibadan, 1954-56, Lancashire Institute of Agriculture, UK, 1956-57, University of Reading, UK, 1959- 63, University of the Philipppines, 1971-73, University of Wales, UK, 1974-76; Career: Appointed Senior Research Officer, National Cereals Research Institute, Moor Plantation, Ibadan; Chief Research Officer, Lake Chad Research Institute, Maiduguri, 1978-85; Senior Lecturer in Agronomy\/Weed Science, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa College, Ahmadu Bello University Campus (now Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University of Agriculture), Bauchi: Life member, International Weed Science Society; member, West African Weed Science Society, Vice-President, 1985- 88: Publications: Co-author, Weeds and their Control, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 1982; Co author, Weed and their Control II, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 1983; Hobbies: walking, table tennis, lawn tennis, reading, photography; Official Address: Department of Crop Production, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University of Agriculture, PMB 0248; Bauchi: Telephone: 077-435-00 extension 386; Home: 10 Commercial Avenue, GRA, Bauchi, Bauchi State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2410,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10027","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-agriculture","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10027","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10027\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}