{"id":13413,"date":"2017-03-02T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13413"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:11:23","slug":"ifowodo-ogagaoghene-emerotowho","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ifowodo-ogagaoghene-emerotowho\/","title":{"rendered":"IFOWODO, Ogagaoghene Emerotowho"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B, B.L, lawyer, poet, creative writer, hu man right activist; born May 14, 1966, Oleh, Delta State; Education: Azagba Primary School, Otor-Owhe, Delta State, 1971-77; Idheze Primary School, Idheze, Delta State, 1977-78; Federal Government College, Warri, Delta State, 1978-83; University of Benin,.Benin, 1985-89; Nigeria Law School, Lagos, 1990-91; Career: Engaged in Pri vate Legal Practitioner, 1991-92; Staff Attorney\/ Co-ordinator, African Monitoring Group Project, Civil Liberties Organisation, 1992- 94: Head, Annual Reports Project,Civil Lib erties Organisation; co-ordinator, African Lobby for Democracy inNigeria Programme, Civil Liberties Organisation; Legal Adviser, Association of Nigerian Authors,since 1993; Guest writer-in-residence, Akademie Schools Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998; writer, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Germany, 1998; member, Nigeria Bar Association, member, Association of Nigerian Authors; honorary member, International Pen Centres of Ger many, Canada, USA, 1998; Publication: Homeland and other Poems, Craft Books, Ibadan, 1998;and several other Poems in An thologies; Award\/Honours: Winner, Bar bara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award, American Pen Centre. 1998; Hobby: Lis tening to music (classical\/jazz); Official Address: 24, Mbonu Ojike Street, Surulere Lagos; Home: 7,TijaniOlujare Street, Alaka Estate, Western Avenue, Surulere, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-584-0288.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,2415],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13413","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13413","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\/13413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}