{"id":10752,"date":"2017-02-16T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10752"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:22:54","slug":"okon-okokon-asuquo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okon-okokon-asuquo\/","title":{"rendered":"OKON, Okokon Asuquo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, MFA, journalist, administrator, Born: April 12, 1963; Place: Calabar, State: Cross River State;m: Esther Maxwell Ekpondia; EDUCATION: St Francis School, Abia, Ikom, Cross River State, 1968-69; Government School, Ikot Okoro, Abak, Akwa Ibom State, 1970-73;West African People&#8217;s Institute, Calabar, 1974-79; Hope Waddell Training Institution, 1979-80; University of Calabar, 1981-85, 1989-91; CAREER: Correspondent National Assembly, 1981;Administrative Director, National Youth Service, Bauchi State, 1985-86;Production Manager\/Editor, Basi and Company, 1987-89; Correspondent The New outlook newspaper, Enugu, 1989;Columnist The Nigerian Chronicle,1991;Features\/Arts Editor,The Defender,1991;Branch mgr., Leaders Security Credit and Investment Company Limited, Calabar, Cross Rivers State, 1991; Editor, The Defender, 1991-92; acting. Editor, The Nigerian Chronicle, 1993; Editor, Chronicle on Sunday, 1995; Executive Editor\/Editor-in-Chief, 1996; gm.\/ce. Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, 1996; ch. Task Force, Nigerian\/Sunday Chronicle, 1993; Executive State Secretary, Nigerian Farmers Organisation, Cross River State chairman. Editorial Board, Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, Calabar! 1993; Nigeria Union of Journalists, Cross River State Council, 1994; director Ministry of Information, Cross River State, since 2000; presd. Green Watch Nigeria; Canaan Foundations; mm: Cross River State Strategic Forestry Implementation Steering Council; Sub-committee, Publicity for Agriculture and Forestry Campaign, Cross River State; Nigerian Guild of Editors- Association of Nigerian Authors; Society of Nigerian Theatre Artistes; National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners, h: Winner, Dipo Kalajaiye Play Writing Prize for Script Writing, Lament of Mask, 1983; Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Certificate as Secretary-General of Calabar University Theatre Arts Students Association, 1983-85; Certificate of Honour, Publicity, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Calabar, 1984; Best General Interest Writer of the Year, Cross River State, Nigeria Union of Journalists, 1991. hob: Media watch television\/print football, calligraphy, spiritual literature, interdisciplinary reading, off: Ministry of Information, Calabar, Cross River State;, red: 3b, Jebs Une, New Airport Road, Calabar South LGA, Cross River State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10752","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10752","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\/10752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}