{"id":14614,"date":"2017-03-09T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=14614"},"modified":"2017-05-11T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:33:41","slug":"onwenu-onyeka","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onwenu-onyeka\/","title":{"rendered":"ONWENU, Onyeka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: Thursday (Afo) 31″ January, 1952 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Ideato North Villaee\/Town: Arondizuogu Onyeka Onwenu is a household name in the African Music Industry. She is a talented Artist. Singer and an outstanding Journalist who has set a proven track record in the Art Industry. She hails from Arondizuogu in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State. She comes from a humble Christian home as the last of a family of live children. Onyeka vvas born and raised in Port-Harcourt Rivers State. Educational and Training \u2022 St. Cyprian’s School, Port Harcourt \u2022 St. Peter’s School, Port Harcourt \u2022 Amaumara Girls’s Secondary School, Mbaise, Imo State \u2022 Zixtin Grammar School, Ozubulu, Anambra State \u2022 Wesley College, Wesley, Massachusetts, USA \u2022 Baldwin School, Pennsylvania \u2022 The New School for Social Research, New York, USA Career History \u2022 Served with the United Nations (Public Information Department, 1977-1980 \u2022 Did Master Programme in Media Studies with specialization on Television \u2022 National Youth Service Corpse (NYSC), Reporter\/Presenter, 1981 \u2022 Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) Lagos, 1981 \u2022 Anambra Television Enugu, Reporter\/Presenter, 1982 \u2022 Presenter, “Contact” Nigerian Television Authority, 1988 \u2022 International Services to B.B.C., tilted “Squandering of Riches” Major Productions: \u2022 Endless love, 1981. \u2022 For the love ofyou, 1982. \u2022 In the morning light, 1984. \u2022 A squandering of Riches, 1984. \u2022 One Love, 1986. \u2022 Dancing in the Sun, 1989. \u2022 Onyeka, 1991 and others, numerous to be listed. She was the presenter of Who’s Who on Nigeria Television Authority, Channel 10, 1994. Services to the Nation \u2022 Member, Technical Committee of Privatization of NTA, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) \u2022 Currently, Board Member Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) Onyeka Onwenu has been a Champion of unity of the great Country Nigeria, which she depicts in most of her songs. She has also championed the cause of the oppressed and the down trodden in our society. She loves children and the aged and more so supports good government and shuns arbitrary leadership of the ruling class. As a humble and dedicated artist, she gives support to women empowerment through education and dedication to work Awards and Honours \u2022 Best Pop Artist, PMAN, 1988 \u2022 Global Media Award by Population Institute, Maryland, Washington USA, 1990 \u2022 Pan African Arts and Music Award, Ghana, 1991 It is interesting to note that this lady ofquintessence never allowed her achievements to distract her from the retaining her Igbo identity and supporting the Igbo agenda and programmes. Her outstanding posture could probably be traced from her father of the blessed memory who was a foremost educationist. He was Principal, Enitona High School, Vice Principal, Baptist High School Port-Harcourt and a politician of note who was among the first Nigerians to study (Classics) at Fourah Boy College. This Icon of a lady is a challenge to all Igbo Youths to note, that success can only be achieved through hard work and transparent honesty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[30,452,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14614","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-movies","category-media","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14614","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}