{"id":14645,"date":"2017-03-09T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14645"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:17:56","slug":"oseni-tunji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oseni-tunji\/","title":{"rendered":"OSENI, Tunji (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BA, MA, journalist, born January 5, 1943, Abeokuta, Ogun State; mar ried Olufunmilayo Oyinkan Onabajo 1985, one daughter; Education: Saje Baptist Day School, Abeokuta, 1949-55, Baptist Boys&#8217; High School, Abeokuta, 1955-60, University ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1964-66, University of Lagos, 1966-67, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo. University), Ile-Ife, 1972-73, University of Minnesota, USA, 1974-75; Career: Appointed Editorial As sistant, Features editor, Night editor and later Deputy editor, Daily Sketch, Ibadan, 1967-73; Editor, Sunday Times ofNigeria, 1976- 80; appointed Editor (International Fora), OPEC News Agency, 1981-84; Editor-in- Chief, OPEC News Agency, Austria; 1984- 89;Director ofNews, Voice ofNigeria; Man aging Director, Daily Times ofNigeria, 1993- 95; Managing Director, TOSEN Consult Limited; member, International Press Insti tute; member, Society of Professional Jour nalists; member, National Advisory Com mitteeon Information; member, Radio-Tele vision Directors Association; member, So ciety of Professional Journalists; member, Sigma Delta Chi; member, International Studies Association; member, Austrian For eign Press Club; member, Nigerian Guild of Editors; member, Nigeria Union of Jour nalists; Protem Secretary, Nigeria Press Organisation, 1980; chairman, Steering Com mittee, Nigerian Media Foundation; member, DAME Trust Fund. Hobbies: table tennis, nature and human study. Official Address: TOSEN Consult Limited, PO Box 7425, Victoria Island, Lagos State. Telephone: 01- 684830. Home: 21, Adeyemi Lawson Street, Ikoyi, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14645","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14645","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\/14645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26391,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14645\/revisions\/26391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14645"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}