{"id":10494,"date":"2017-02-14T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10494"},"modified":"2017-05-15T08:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T07:12:40","slug":"okereke-michael-okonkwo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okereke-michael-okonkwo\/","title":{"rendered":"OKEREKE, Michael Okonkwo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>public relations consultant, marketing strategist, born July 9, 1938, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State; married, has children; Education: St George&#8217;s School, Zaria, Government Secondary School, Owerri, National High School, Aro-Ndizuogu, London County Council College for Distributive Trade,London, Ashridge Management College, UK, Cranfield School of Business, UK; Career: joined UAC International, London (as Management trainee), 1964; Public Relations Manager (for Eastern States and Bendel States), UAC (Nigeria) Limited, 1965 and later appointed Public Relations Adviser of UAC of Nigeria Limited; planned and executed many brand publicity campaigns for UAC including &#8220;Mr Biggs&#8221;; former Chairman, Trade Fair Committee, Enugu Chamber of Commerce; member, Trade Fair Committee, Enugu Chamber of Commerce (planned and executed First National Trade Exhibition, 1985); planned the award winning UAC stand in 1985, 1986 and 1987 Lagos and Kaduna International Trade Fair; former member of Council and Chairman, Public Relations Committee, Enugu Chamber of Commerce; former Secetary, Nigerian Institute of Management, Enugu Branch;former National Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Marketing Association; Public Relations Adviser, Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture; member of Council, Nigerian Institute of Management; member, Board of Studies and Education and Training and Progammes Committee, Nigerian Institute of Management; member, Education Committee and National Executive, Nigerian Marketing Association; member, publicity committee, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry; member Publicity Committee, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria; President and Chairman, National Council of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (1988) and its fellow; member, British Institute of Marketing; member, British Institute of Management; member, British Institute of Public Relations; member, International Public Relations Association; member, Communication, Advertising and Marketing Education Foundation (CAM); member, Governing Council, Business Education Examinations Council; Nigerian Representative, Institute of Marketing, UK; Nigerian Representative, Communication Advertising and Marketing Education Foundation, England; Hobbies: reading, publicity; Official Address: Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, National Secretariat, 24, Obanikoro Street, Obanikoro, P.O. Box 533, Lagos; Telephone: 01-934-571, 966- 977, OR Public Relations Department, UAC (Nigeria) Limited, 3, Dockyard Road, Apapa, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10494","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10494","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\/10494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10499,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10494\/revisions\/10499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}