{"id":10605,"date":"2017-02-15T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10605"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:39:28","slug":"okogwu-amb-leonard-ezenweani","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okogwu-amb-leonard-ezenweani\/","title":{"rendered":"OKOGWU, Amb. Leonard Ezenweani"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.M, Ph.D; lawyer, diplomat administrator: December 17,1937; Place: Asaba; LGA: Oshimili South; State: Delta;~married with children; EDUCATION: St. Patrick&#8217;s College, Asaba, 1952-56; Bournemouth Municipal College, England, 1961-63; Vienna University, l963- 64; Friboury University, 1964-69; CAREER Clerical Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, 1957-59; Stud To Manager\/Programme Operator, 1959-61;Nigeria Foreign Service, Nigeria Mission to the United Nations, 1973-74; Administration Dept, 1974-76; Nigerian Mission to the Nordic Countries, 1976-78; African Dept, Ministry of Bdernal Affairs, 1978-80;Charged&#8217;Affairs,&#8217; Embassy of Nigeria,Guinea-Bissau, 1981 -82; Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of Nigeria, Belgrade, 1982-84; Deputy director, Multilateral Economic Cooperation Dept, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, 1984-87; Minister, Embassy of Nigeria, Moscow\u00abx-USSR, 1987-91;Ambassador of Nigeria to Romania and Bulgaria, 1991-99; Visiting Associate Prof., Abia State University, 1999-01; Coordinator, ECOWAS Culture, Tourism and Fashion Festival (ECOFEST), since 2001; Foundation member, Romania-Africa Friendship Association; mm: Romania-Nigerian Chamber of  Commerce and Industry; Africa Friendship Association, Bulgaria; tt: Ogbueshi Ugobueze, 1976; hob: music, sport, reading; res: 33, Elibujor East Umuonaje Quarters, Asaba, Delta State; tel: 0803-324-1178; fax: 056-289134; e-m: okogwu@hotmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2398,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10605","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-diplomat","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10605","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\/10605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}