{"id":10756,"date":"2017-02-16T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10756"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:38:04","slug":"okon-professor-edet-daniel","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okon-professor-edet-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"OKON, Professor Edet Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVM, Ph.D, parasitologist and veterinary surgeon, born October 20, 1943, Oron, Akwa Ibom State; married Christie Okon Essang 1972, two sons, one daughter; Education: District Council School, Oruko, Oron, 1949-56, Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, 1958-64, University of Ibadan, 1965-68, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1968-70; Career: Appointed School Teacher, Methodist Secondary School, Odot, Uyo, 1965; Veterinary Officer, South Eastern State Government, Calabar, 1970-71; Research fellow, University of Ibadan, 1971-73; Lecturer, University of Ibadan, 1973-77; Senior Lecturer, University of Calabar, 1977-83; Head, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calabar, since 1982; appointed Professor of Parasitology, 1983; United Nations Development Programme Fellowship to University of Galveston, Texas, USA, 1979; Vice President, Nigerian Society for Parasitology, 1980-81; Commonwealth Academic Fellow ship, 1981-82; member, British Veterinary Association, since 1981; member, West African Examinations Council, 1985-88; Publications: Over 24 scientific articles in national and international journals; Hobby: lawn tennis; Official Address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calabar; Telephone: 087-224-747 extensions 18 and 128; Home: QC 32, University of Calabar Staff Quarters, Calabar, Cross River State; Telephone: 087-224-41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10756","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10756","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\/10756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}