{"id":11512,"date":"2017-02-21T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11512"},"modified":"2017-05-19T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:02:44","slug":"oladeji-dr-niyi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oladeji-dr-niyi\/","title":{"rendered":"OLADEJI, Dr. Niyi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D, educationist, born March 4, 1943, Oyo, Oyo State; married Caroline Yetunde Balogun-Adepetu 1971, two sons, four daughters; Education: St Andrew&#8217;s College Demonstration School, 1949-55, Anglican Methodist Secondary Modern School, Oyo, 1956-58, St Andrew&#8217;s College, Oyo, 1960-62, University of Ibadan, 1965-68, University of Ife, 1974-77, University of Exeter, England, 1977-80; CAREER: Appointed Education Officer, Western Nigeria, 1968-74; Lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1974-86, Senior Lecturer, 1986; acting Head, Department of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1981-85; member, Board of Governors, Oyo State Broadcasting Corporation 1984-86; member, Concord Award for Academic Publishing, since 1984; Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of English Language, Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, 1987; member, Board of Governors, Oke Olola Grammar School, Oyo; member, British Association for Applied Linguistics; member, International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language; member, Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies; Hobbies: photography, freelance writing; Official Address: Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Telephone: (036) 230290, extension 2261; Home: House E12, Road 23, Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Oyo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11512","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11512","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\/11512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11512"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}