{"id":14747,"date":"2017-03-09T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14747"},"modified":"2017-05-15T11:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:11:29","slug":"onyekwere-okpo-oji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onyekwere-okpo-oji\/","title":{"rendered":"ONYEKWERE, Okpo Oji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, bacteriologist, food technologist, bom No vember 13, 1939,Okoko Item, Bende, Abia State; married Grace Nnenna 1967, two sons, one daughter; Education: Methodist Central School, Item, 1945-50, Methodist College, Uzuakoli, 1951 -56,Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, 1957, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1958-62; Career: Research Officer, Bacteriology, Veterinary Research Unit, Vom, 1963; Qual ity Control Chemist, Flour Mills ofNigeria, Apapa, 1963-67; Quality Control Manager, Tema Foods Corporation, Tema, Ghana, 1971-75; Principal Research Officer, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO), 1975-78; Chief Research Officer, FIIRO, 1978-87;appointed Assistant Direc tor, FIIRO, 1987; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Food Science &#038; Technology, since 1977; member, Nigerian Society for Microbiology, 1976; member, American Association of Cereal Chemists; member, Institute of Food Technologists, USA; Chief Editor, NIFST, 1977-82;former consultant, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation onCas sava ProcessingTechnology; Consultant on upgraded indigenous food processing tech nology, especially in Root &#038; Tuber &#038; Ce real Grains Processing &#038; Utilization; Con sultanton Bread Baking withSpecial Refer ence to the Use of Composite Flour; mem ber, Nigerian Society for Microbiology, 1976; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Food Sci ence and Technology, 1977; Chief Editor, NIFST, 1977-82; Publications: Co-author, Nigerian Gari &#038;Nigerian Ogi &#8211; Handbook of indigenous Fermented Foods, March DekkerInc., 1983;Co-author, Industrializa tion ofIndigenous Fermented Food, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1989; Hobbies: lawn tennis, reading, gardening; Official Address: Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, PMB 21023, Ikeja, Lagos; Telephone: 01- 522-760; Home: Flat 7, Federal Institute of Industrial Research Compound Residential Quarters, Blind School Road, Oshodi, La gos; Telephone: 01-521-042.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2405],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14747","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-scientist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14747","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\/14747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}