{"id":12776,"date":"2017-02-28T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12776"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:26:28","slug":"idigo-gabriel-igbonekwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/idigo-gabriel-igbonekwu\/","title":{"rendered":"IDIGO, Gabriel Igbonekwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>journalist, born July 11, 1922, Aguleri, Anambra State; married Josephine Obiamaka Onwudiwe 1952, two sons, two daughters; Education: St Matthias and Holy Cross Catholic Schools, Lagos, 1928-33,St Gregory College, Lagos, 1934-37, RegentStreet Polytechnic, London, 1953-54; Career: Appointed Editor, Daily Times, 1955-57; editor, Nigerian Outlook, 1960-70; Supervisory Councillor, Enugu Lo cal Government, 1976-79; Director, New NigerianNewspapers, 1980-83; Sole Admin istrator, Star Printing and Publishing Com pany Limited, 1984-86; Director, Daily Times ofNigeria, since 1986;Principal Partner,Gab Idigo and associates, since 1987; Head of Publicity, banned National Party of Nigeria, Anambra State Branch, 1979; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations; Political Party: member, banned National Party of Nigeria; Awards: First Nigerian recipient, Commonwealth Prize in Journalism, 1954; Recipient, Nigeria Union of Journalists roll of honour for contribution to the profession of Journalism in Nigeria; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations; Hobbies: cricket, soccer, reading; Official Address: 17, Chief Ekwueme Street, Uwani, Enugu; Telephone: 042-334350; Home: 11, Emole Avenue, GRA, Enugu, Enugu State; Tele phone: 042-330545.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12776","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12776","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}