{"id":11205,"date":"2017-02-20T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11205"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:55:46","slug":"oku-ekei-essien","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oku-ekei-essien\/","title":{"rendered":"OKU, Ekei Essien"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired Librarian, born January 1, 1924, Calabar, Cross River State; married Chief Essien Oku 1956, one son, two daughters; Education: Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1935-36; Saint George&#8217;s School, Egwanga, Opobo, 1937-38; Ovim Girls&#8217; School, Ovim, 1939-41; Queen&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1942-46; North-Western Polytechnic, London, 1951-53; Career: Appointed Chief Librarian, Lagos City Council Library Services, 1955-69; Chief Librarian, The Cross River State (previously South- Eastern State), 1969-84; pensioneer till date; associate, Chartered Librarian of the British Librarian Association, 1953; Traditional Titles: Ada-Idaha-Ke-Efik-Eburutu, 1984; Publication: The Kings and Chiefs of Old Calabar, Glad tidings Press, Calabar, 1989; Hobbies: writing, reading, church work; Home: 3, Diamond Lane, Diamond Hill, P.O. Box 256, Calabar; Telephone: (087) 232-784.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1532],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11205","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-librarian"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11205","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\/11205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}