{"id":12131,"date":"2017-02-26T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12131"},"modified":"2017-05-22T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:38:24","slug":"olasope-biola","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olasope-biola\/","title":{"rendered":"OLASOPE, Biola"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>broadcaster, administrator, born in 1935, Efon-Alaye, Ondo State; married, has children; Education: Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, 1948-53, in-service courses in Nigeria and abroad, National In stitute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos; joined the defunct Western Nigerian Broadcasting Service as an announcer, 1954 and later moved to the News Department, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria); held many posts and acted (many times) as Director-General, FRCN, Lagos; Director, Voice of Nigeria, FRCN, up to 1985; retired from FRCN, 1985; appointed Chairman, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), since February 1988; member, Rotary Club, Lagos; member, Island Club, Lagos; member, Ikoyi &#8220;Club, Lagos; member,,Efon-Alaye Club; Hobbies: sports, squash; Official Address: News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), National Theatre, Iganmu, PMB 12756, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 801290-3, 832791.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12131","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12131","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\/12131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}