{"id":13866,"date":"2017-03-06T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13866"},"modified":"2017-05-15T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:48:44","slug":"onyige-dr-peter-usutu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onyige-dr-peter-usutu\/","title":{"rendered":"ONYIGE, Dr. Peter Usutu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BA,MA Ph.D, geographer, educationist, journalist, diplo mat, born November22, 1940,Omoku, Riv ers State; married Kate Nwakaego Osuh 1975, two sons, six daughters; Education: Ibo National High School, Aba, 1956-60, Alvan Ikoku Collegeof Education, Owerri, 1963-65, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971-74, University of Birmingham, UK, 1975-79; Career: Appointed Senior Tutor, Ngwa High School, 1966-67; SeniorTutor, County Grammar School, Ikwerre Etche, 1970-71; Lecturer, University of Port Har court, 1970-71;Senior Lecturer, and Acting Head, Department ofGeography, University of Port Harcourt, since 1984; Acting Editor, NewAge Newspaper, Aba, 1967-69; mem ber, Nigerian Delegation, International Meet ing on Cooperation and Development, Cancun, Mexico, October 1981; Nigerian&#8217; Ambassador to Mexico, 1981-84; Alterna tive Representative, Nigerian.Delegation to the 37th Session ofthe United Nations, 1982; member, Nigerian Delegation to World Con ference on Cultural Policies, Mexico, July- August 1982; member, Nigerian Geographi cal Association; member, Institute of British Geographers, member, African Association UK; Foreign Decoration: Decorated with the Aguila Azeteca (Azteca Eagle) by the Mexican Government for distinguished ser vices as and Ambassador; Publication: The Political Economy of Mexican Oil: Some Implication for the Management and Utili zation of Nigerian Petroleum, Zim Pan Af rican Publishers, Oguta, 1917; Hobbies: swimming, reading, lawn tennis; Address: Department of Geography, University of Port Harcourt, PMB 5323, Port Harcourt; Telephone: 084-300-440, Ext. 9; Home: Dr. Onyige&#8217;s Compound, Omoku&#8221; Urban, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2398,1505,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13866","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-diplomat","category-educationist","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13866","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}