{"id":13667,"date":"2017-03-03T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13667"},"modified":"2017-11-21T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:27:06","slug":"omoruyi-professor-omomiomwan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/omoruyi-professor-omomiomwan\/","title":{"rendered":"OMORUYI, Prof Omomiomwan (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, MA, Ph.D, political scientist, born May 31,1938, Benin City, Edo State; married Joan Murray 1969, two children; Education: Benin Delta Teachers Training College, 1946-53, University of Ibadan, 1962-65, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, 1965-70, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, near Jos, 1979-80; Career: Appointed Lecturer, State Uni versity of New York, Albany, New York, USA, 1968-70; Lecturer, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1970-75; Senior Lecturer, University of Benin, 1975;Associate Professor, University of Benin; Professor of Political Science, University of Benin, since 1977; appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Benin, 1988-89; Director-General, Centrefor Democratic Studies, Bwari, Abuja, 1989-93; Self-exile since 1993; Research Fellow, Harvard University, Boston, USA; member, International Political Science Association; editor, International Journal of Political Edu cation, 1977; member, Technical Committee on Revenue Allocation, 1977;past Chairman, Board of the National Library, Lagos; mem ber, Constituent Assembly, 1977-78; Politi cal Party: member, defunct Nigerian Peoples Party; Hobby: reading; Official Ad dress: Harvard University, Boston, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13667","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13667","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22947,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13667\/revisions\/22947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13667"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}