{"id":13480,"date":"2017-03-02T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13480"},"modified":"2017-05-19T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:28:51","slug":"james-cyril-ademola","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/james-cyril-ademola\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMES, Cyril Ademola"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>journalist, civil servant; b: August 17, 1941; p: Katsina, ht: Ogbomoso; lga: Ogbomoso\/South; so: Oyo; m: Janet Olabisi Abimbola Akisanya, 1968; nc: three s, two d; ed: St. Anne&#8217;s School, Burutu, Delta State, 1946-47; St. Paul&#8217;s School, Breadfruit, Lagos, 1949-54; St. Gregory&#8217;s College, Ugos, 1955-1960, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 1963-64; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, 1978., World Press Institute (WPI) cr: Proof reader, Reporter, Daily Express Newspaper, 1961; Features Writer, Sub-Editor, SundayExpress 1963; columnist, Seattle Post Intelligentsia, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1964; features writer, editorial writer and columnist, Daily Express Newspaper, 1964-65; Information Officer, Federal Ministry of Information, 1965; Consul Information, Nigerian Consulate-General, NY, USA, 1971-73; Head, Publication Unit, Ministry of Information, 1973-79; Deputy Head, External Publicity Division, 1981; Head, Field Operations, Public Enlightenment Division, 1985; dir. Information, Lagos State Ministry of Information and Culture, 1985-87; Head, Film Production Division, Federal Ministry of Information, 1989-90; ag. dir. Public Enlightenment Depart-ment, State Liaison Department, Federal Ministry of Information; 1991; din Production and Film Department; 1992; edir. National Film and Video Censors Board, since 1994; sec. Nigerian Press Committee, 1969; Scriptwriter for Village Headmaster TV Series, 1968-85, Scriptwriter for radio-Radio Nigeria, BBC, (Radio Drama);mm: Nigeria Union of Journalists; Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, f: World Press Institute, Mac Alester College, St, Paul Minnesota, USA., 1964; Special Certificate in Communications Planning, Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University, Syracuse N.Y, USA., 1978; nh: Journalist Award, Nigeria Union of Journalists, 1992. publ: A man of Conscience, Northern Nigeria Publishing Company, Zaria, 1983. cw: The Rain-Maker, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, hob: reading, writing, table tennis, film, television, off: Plot 730, Alexandria Crescent, Wuse II, Zone A7, Abuja, tel: 09-4138940, res: 1579, Kayes Street, Wuse Zone I, Abuja. tel: 09-5232452,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13480","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13480","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}