{"id":12842,"date":"2017-02-28T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12842"},"modified":"2017-04-20T06:29:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T05:29:16","slug":"idiong-monday-bassey","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/idiong-monday-bassey\/","title":{"rendered":"IDIONG, Monday Bassey"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Servant; Director-General, Akwa Ibom State ; LGA:: Itu; Born: Oct. 15, 1951 ; Pa: (E lder) Bassey Udo Id iong and Mrs Alice B. Id iong (nee Ekong); Married to Mrs. Victoria Id iong; Children: Bassey( 17), Amanama(5), Darima(2) and Emem( I); Ed ucation: Hope Waddell Trai ning Institution, Calabar, 1964-7 1, WASC; Univ. of Lagos, Lagos, 1975-76. Dip loma in Mass Comm; Univ. of Calaba r, 1977-81&#8242;, B.A. Hons in Theatre Arts; Career and Work History: Studio Manager, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Calabar, 1972-86; Controller (Operations), Cross River Radio, Calabar, 1986-90; Press Secretary to the Governor, Gov!. House, Uyo, 1989-9 1; Director (News), AKBC, Uyo, 1993; Director(Public Relation s); AKS Lia ison Office, Lagos, 1993-94; Director-General, Akwa Ibom State Liaison Office, Lagos, 1994; Director-Genera l, Min istry of Information and Culture, Uyo, 1994-96; Min of Ed ucation, 1996 &#8211; present; Special Work Related Achievements: Created a very popular radio jingle on punctuality to work which became a model for teaching students of Communication Arts in some Universit ies; First compere of the then Cross River Radio Comedy Programme City Caravan; Profess\\on .. , \\ MemberShips: Mem., Nigerian Institute of- Public Relati o ns, MNIPR; Religious Affiliation : Presbyterian; Hobbies: Squash, Rflckets, Reading, Films; OFfice: Mini stry of Education and Youth Headquarters, Idonges it Nkanga Secretariat Complex. Uyo. Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,219],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12842","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-civil-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12842","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19522,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12842\/revisions\/19522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12842"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}