{"id":12204,"date":"2017-02-26T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12204"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:26:42","slug":"hon-martins-godwin-alo-nwokeocha","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/hon-martins-godwin-alo-nwokeocha\/","title":{"rendered":"ALO-NWOKEOCHA, Hon. Martins Godwin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Alo-Nwokeocha was born in Uburu Amachi in Anambra State. He started his early education at St. Patrick&#8217;s Primary School, Uburu Amachi, 1954 &#8211; 1960; St. Enda&#8217;s College Inyimagu Abakaliki, 1961 &#8211; 1965; Holy Family College Oku-Abak, Cross River State, 1966 &#8211; 1967, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka 1970 &#8211; 1974. He had his Na-tional Youth Service in Kwara State from 1974 &#8211; 1975. Hon. Alo-Nwokeocha obtained his first school leaving certificate, in 1960, the West African School Certificate in- 1965, B.Sc. (Hons) Geography Degree of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1974. He was an NYSC Geography Teacher in 1975 at Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo Offa, Kwara State. He was also a Lecturer in Geography as well as Games Master, House Master and Farm Master at the Government Teachers&#8217; College Utonkon in Benue State. Christian by faith, he married his wife Anthonia in 1979, and they have one child. Hewas influenced early in -life by his father and late President John Kennedy, of the United States byhis actions on civil rights principles. Hon. Godwin Alo-Nwokocha has written a number of articles some of which are on &#8220;Problem of Rural Development&#8221; in 1974 and &#8220;The Role of Geographers in National Development&#8221;. His hobbies are farming reading, badminton and current affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12204","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12204","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20341,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12204\/revisions\/20341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}