{"id":14115,"date":"2017-03-07T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14115"},"modified":"2017-11-23T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:59:00","slug":"ottong-professor-joseph-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ottong-professor-joseph-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"OTTONG, Prof. Joseph Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, Ph. D, sociologist, demographer, uni versity teacher, born June 15, 1945, Ikot Obong Edong, Ikot Ekpene, LGA, Akwa Ibom State; married Eno Udom Obot 1975, two sons, three daughters; Education: Meth odist Central School, Ikot Ekpene, 1949-55; Methodist Teacher Training College, Ibiakpan, Ikot-Ekpene, 1956; Teachers Grades II &#038; III, 1962-63; University of Ibadan, 1968-71; Career: Appointed Lec turer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1974- 79; Senior Lecturer, University of Calabar, 1979-date; Professor &#038; Head, Department of Sociology, University of Calabar, 1992- 96; Professor &#038; Dean, Faculty ofSocial Sci ences, University of Calabar, 1996-date; member, International Union for the Scien tific Study of Population; member, Union For African Population Studies; member, inter national Sociological Association; member, Nigerian Anthropological &#038; Sociological Association, (NASA); member, Population Association of Nigeria; member, Network for the Prevention of Maternal Mortality; Publication: Co-author, Changing African: An Introductory To Sociology, Macmillan, London, 1987; Foreign Honours: Listed in Who&#8217;s Who in Africa; Listed in the Interna tional Men of Achievement by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK; Hob bies: gardening, church activities, commu nity work; Official Address: Department of Sociology, University ofCalabar, PMB 1115, Calabar; Home: QE1, University of Calabar Staff Quarters, Calabar, Cross River State; Telephone: 087-232-497; OR 4B, Ikono Road, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State; Tele phone: 085-400019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2418],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14115","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-sociologist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14115","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14115"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}