{"id":10054,"date":"2017-02-08T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10054"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:27:51","slug":"okafor-rev-monsignor-dr-simon-akwali","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okafor-rev-monsignor-dr-simon-akwali\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAFOR, Rev. Monsignor (Dr.) Simon Akwali"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, M.Ed., M.PhiI., Ph.D; clergyman, educationist born: November 16,1934; Hometown: Ifite-Ukpo, Njikoka; State: Anambra; EDUCATION: St. Gabriel&#8217;s Catholic Sohool, Ifite-Ukpo, 1941-42; St Anthony&#8217;s Catholic School, Danukofia, 1943-49; All Hallow&#8217;s Seminary, Onitsha, 1951-54; Bigard Memorial Seminary, 1957-63; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1963-67; University of Detroit USA, 1975-76; Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1976-82; Ordained Catholic Priest; July 21, 1%3. CAREER: Parish Priest Umunze, 1967-69; sec. to the Archbishop of Onitsha, 1969-75; Chancellor, Archdiocese of Onitsha, 1969-75; Catholic Education Sec. l969-75; Provost Anambra State College of Education, Awka, 1987; Spiritual director. Catholic Women Organisation, 1969-75; mm: Philosophy of Education Society, USA, since 1980; National Society for the Study of Education, USA, since 1981; Philosophy of Education Association of Nigeria, since 1984; Foreign Honours: Awarded Honorary Papal Prelate by Pope John Paul II Rome, 1986.<br \/>\nPUBLICATION: Philosophy of Education for Beginners, Onitsha, Network Publishers, 1988; Hobbies: lawn tennis, music off: C\/o Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Anambra State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,319,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10054","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-clergy","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10054","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\/10054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10054\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}