{"id":12885,"date":"2017-02-28T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12885"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:25:15","slug":"olu1kpe-prof-benson-omenihu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olu1kpe-prof-benson-omenihu\/","title":{"rendered":"OLUIKPE, Prof. Benson Omenihu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D., linguist, author, educationist; DOB:October 22, 1936; ht: Isiala Ngwa, so:Abia ; m: Rosannah Nwanmah Isaiah. 1963; nc:one s, three d; ed: SDA School, Ovom II, Aba, 1945-49; SDA School, Emii, Owerri, 1950-51; SDA School. Umuobrakwa, 1950; Adventist High School, Ihie, 1953-58; Adventist College of West Africa, Ilishan Remo, 1960-63; Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, 1963-64; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 1964-67. Howard University, Washington, D.C, USA, 1967-71; Catalogue Librarian, Law Library, Howard University, Washington D.C, USA, 1969-70; College Librarian, Adventist College of West Africa, Ilishan-Remo, 1971-73. cr: Ucturer, English Linguistics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1973-75; snr. Ucturer, 1975-80; Co-ordinator, Use of English, Division of General Studies, UNN, 1979-83; Reader in English Linguistics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1980-82; prof. English Linguistics. UNN, 1982; Visiting prof. University of Sokoto, 1983-84; Head, Department of Linguistics\/Nigerian Languages, UNN, 1985-86; associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1986; Dean, Faculty of Arts, UNN, 1986-88; Panel Leader, Foundation Course for the Open University of Nigeria. 1980; mm: Federal Government English Unguage Specialist Panel for the Six Year Secondary English Language Curriculum, 1974-82; Syllabus Committee for Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Use of English Examination, 1981; Nigeria English Studies Association; West African Modern Languages Association; West African Linguistic Congress; National Secretary, Nigerian Association of General Studies; publ: Thesis Writing: Its Form and Style (Latern Books, 1979), Igbo Transformational Syntax (Africana-FEP Publishers, 1981), English in Igboland, A Contrastive Study of English and Igbo Syntax, (Africana-FEP Publishers, 1981), Tliesis Writing: Its Form and Style, rev. ed. (Africana-FEP Publishers, 1982), New Directions in Nigerian Higher Education: Focuson General Studies, editor, (Lagos 1984). hob: singing, gardening, watching television, off: Faculty of Arts. University of Nigeria. Nsukka. Enugu State, tel: 042-771911 ext. 150. res: 20, Sir Louis Mbanefo Street, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, tel: 042- 70828<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505,2415],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12885","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist","category-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12885","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\/12885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}