{"id":10811,"date":"2017-02-17T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10811"},"modified":"2017-05-16T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T09:25:01","slug":"okor-mr-jerome-okorie","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okor-mr-jerome-okorie\/","title":{"rendered":"OKOR, Mr. Jerome Okorie"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in September 1941 at Amelu Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government area; He was educated at the Obioha Primary School,&#8221; Okposi; Boys&#8217; Voca tional School, Ididep, Itu; St Thomas College, Ogoja; the University of Nigeria, Usukka and the Nigerian Law&#8221; School, Lagos where he had his LL.B. Hons. degree and B.L. respectively; He taught for 14 years, 1953-66; He set up a legal practice in 1973 and was in it till his election into the House; He has held the following posts: President Obaozara Divisional Co-operative Council; Board member, Imo State Co-operative Financing Association Limited, 1976 till date; Director, Imo State Agricultural Development Corporation; Councillor, Ohaozara Local Government, 1977-79; Mr. Okor&#8217;s hobby is farming; He is married and has two children; In his philosophy, he believes that fortune favours the brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10811","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10811","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\/10811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}