{"id":13768,"date":"2017-03-03T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13768"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:47:31","slug":"igho-peter","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/igho-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"IGHO, Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A; writer, broadcaster, administrator; b: March 28, 1948; p: Jos; ht: Kokori Inland; Iga: Ethiope East; so: Delta; ed: St. John&#8217;s College, Kaduna, 1962-68; University of Ibadan, 1969-72; cr: Teacher, St. John&#8217;s College, Kaduna, 1969; Education officer II, Federal Public Service Commission; Tutor, Teachers College, Bida; Education Office I, Federal Public Service Commission, 1975; Head, Dramatic Department, NTA, Sokoto, 1975-77; snr. Producer, 1976; asst. dir. Kanta of Kebbi, 1978; Principal Producer, 1978; ag. Controller of Programmes, 1979; Controller of Programmes, 1980; ag. Manager, National Television Production Centre, 1981; Manager Programmes, 1981; ag. gm.. National Programmes, 1983; ag. dir. Programmes, NTA, Lagos, 1987; Founded the Sokoto State Cultural Troupe, 1976; mm: T.V. Operations Committee, T.V. coverage, Festac&#8217;77; produced Cock Crow at Dawn; new version of Moment of Truth, 1982; Mirror in The Sun; New Masquerade; Samaja; Things Fall Apart; Second Chance; Pot of Life; Magaji Family; Magaji Daries; Tele Movies; Behind the Clouds; Giant in the Sun; New Horizon; Food Basket; Contract; Agenda for a Planet; Young Farmers&#8217; Club; Nigerian Dances; Young Brains; Young World; Supple Blues; Ripples; Third Eye; Story Land; Speakout; Sonny Lion Heart Show; Mary Aji Usuah; Another Step; Super Express; awards: First place winner, Kennedy Essay competition, 1968; Ogaga&#8217;s heart, one of the three National Winners at All Nigerian Festival of Arts and Culture, 1974; Best Producer, NTA Drama Festival for Moment of Trust, 1978; Special commendation URTNA for Cock Crow at Dawn, 1982; Overall winner, trophy, NTA Star award, 1983; selected African Shop steward for Input&#8217;85, Morselles, France; NTA merit award for Things Fall Apart, 1986; Certificate of Recognition; Night of a Hundred Stars, Classique Magazines, 1990; publ. Author, Ogaga&#8217;s Heart; Theperfect crime; Fated from the start; Dead are Never Dead; The Truth; A matter of Conscience; The Cats Skull; Who&#8217;sto Blame; off: Nigeria Television Authority, Ahmadu Bell Way; T. V. House, Victoria Island; G P. O. 12005; Marina Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452,2415],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13768","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media","category-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13768","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\/13768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}