{"id":11369,"date":"2017-02-21T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T10:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11369"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:46:20","slug":"okwu-chief-basil-charles","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okwu-chief-basil-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"OKWU, Chief Basil Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.F.R.; born on August 23, 1923 at Auchi\/ Oji River Local Government area of Anambra State; Education: attended Saint Mary&#8217;s Catholic School, Auchi; Saint Charles Teacher Training College, Onitsha; Qualification: Higher Elementary Teacher Certificate; Senior Teacher&#8217;s Certificate; Married with many children. Elected NPP Senator for Anambra Central Constituency; A former member of the House of Assembly 1952-53; Member Eastern House of Assembly 1953-66; Author of &#8216;Before the Darkness Falls;&#8221;Facing The Uncertain Future;&#8217; &#8216;Pan African Socialism&#8217; and &#8216;Eastern Nigerian Economic Possibilities.&#8217; He was honoured with an award of C.F.R. in 1965. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11369","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11369","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\/11369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}