{"id":13981,"date":"2017-03-06T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13981"},"modified":"2017-11-23T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:49:03","slug":"oparadike-chief-innocent-eberechukwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oparadike-chief-innocent-eberechukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"OPARADIKE, Chief Innocent Eberechukwu (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned journalist, newspaper manager, media consultant and former Commissioner for Information and Culture in Imo State<\/p>\n<p>B.A, M.Sc, mediaconsultant; b: November22,1950; ht: Owerri; so: Imo; m: EstherAtukpawu;nc:ones, two d; ed: Ogwa Central School, 1956-62;Obazu Community Grammar School,Mbieri, Owerri,1963-71; UniversityofNigeria, Nsukka, 1972-76; University ofLagos,Akoka, 1980-81. cr Programmes andNews Department National Youth&#8217;Service Corps, RadioNigeria, 1976-77; Management Trainee, Centre forManagement DevelopmentLagos, Kano,1977-78; Editor, News Agency bfNigeria, 1978-80; Columnist, Group Political Editor,National Concord Newspaper, 1980-83; Editor, The Democrat, 1983-84; Deputy Editor, Editor, New NigerianNewspaper, 1984-87;Nationaldir. Information and Publicity, Directorate for Social Mobilisation, 1987-90; Leader, Freedom Communications Limited, 1990;Group Managing, DailyTimes ofNigeria PIc, 1995-96; ch\/ce. Freedom Communications Ltd; Editorial Board mem. National Concord Newspaper, 1980-83; Consultant, Technical Comrriittee on Privatisationand Cbmmer-cialisation; council mem. Commonwealth Press Union;GoverningCouncil, Imo StateOrientationAgency; mm: Nigerian Institute ofInternational Affairs;Nigerian EconomicSociety,Nigeria Unionof Journalists; Nigeria GuildofEditors; h: KnightoftheOrderofSt.Christopher. tt: ChinyereugoAmurie-Omanze, 1995. hob: reading,tennis, jogging, sc: KadunaClub;Kaduna Polo Club;,OctagonClub;, RotaryInternational, off: FreedomCommunications Limited, 3, Samuel Manuel Street Victoria Island, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13981","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13981","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22968,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13981\/revisions\/22968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}