{"id":11081,"date":"2017-02-20T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11081"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:46:39","slug":"okpe-chief-senator-godwin-idoko","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okpe-chief-senator-godwin-idoko\/","title":{"rendered":"OKPE, Chief (Sen) Godwin Idoko"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, broadcaster, politician, administrator, businessman, born February 10, 1948, Olaigbenue, Okpoga, Okpokwu LGA, Benue State; married, has children. Education: RCM School, Ede-Okpoga, 1954-56, First School Leaving Certificate, St. Michael&#8217;s School Orukpa, 1958-60, St.Michael&#8217;s Secondary School, Aliade, 1961-65, St. John&#8217;s College, Kaduna, 1966-67, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1969-72, University of Syracuse, New York, 1974, University of California, Berkely, CA, USA, 1975-76; diana University, Bloomington, 1977. Career: Appointed Teacher, St. John&#8217;s College, Kaduna, 1968-69; Producer\/Scrip Writer, Broadcasting Company of Northern Nigerian, Kaduna, 1972-73; Senior Producer, Benue\/Plateau Broadcasting Corporation, Head of News, 1976; Manager, News and Current Affairs, NTV,. Makurdi, 1978-79; Commissioner for Finance, Benue State, 1979-83; Senator, Federal Republic of Nigeria, , 1983; Chairman\/Chief Executive, Life and Time Nigeria Limited, since 1986. Traditional Titles: Osaba Okpoga; Alakpa Idoma land. Hobbies: reading, travelling, lawn tennis. Home: 48, ObaAkran Avenue, P.O. Box 6396, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,209,452,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11081","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-business-person","category-media","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11081","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\/11081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}