{"id":15659,"date":"2017-03-14T16:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15659"},"modified":"2017-05-08T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T15:49:00","slug":"njoku-ibe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/njoku-ibe\/","title":{"rendered":"NJOKU, Ibe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, M.Sc, journalist born February 14, 1954, Akanu, Ohafia, Ohafia, Abia State; married, has children. Educa tion: Ukpacha Primary School, Akanu Ohafia; Municipal council School, Orije, Port Harcourt; Government College, Umuahia; University ofNigeria, Nsukka; University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos. Career: Appointed In formation Officer II, Federal Ministry of In formation, Ikoyi, Lagos, 1979; Features Writer, Assembly Correspondent, Deputy News Editor, 1979-81; Area Editor, Ivory Tower Publishing Company Limited; Enugu (for Imo State), 1981-83; Project Co ordinator, Rapid Press Agency, Apapa, 1984; Correspondent, Deputy News Editor, Acting Editor, Imo Newspapers Limited, Owerri; Acting Deputy Editor, The Statesman; City Editor, (Lagos), Imo Newspapers Limited, 1984-88; News Editor, Champion Newspa pers Limited, Lagos, 1988-89; Opinion\/Edi torial Page Editor, 1989-90; Features Editor, 1990-91; Editor, Business Championmaga zine, 1992; Editor, Daily Champion, 1993; senior member, Editorial Board, 1994-95; Deputy General Manager, Publications, 1995-96; General Manager, Post Communi cations Limited, Publishers ofNational Post -subsidiary of Champion Newspapers Lim ited, 1996-97; Chairman, Editorial Board, Champion Newspapers Limited, since 1997; Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists; member, Nigerian Guild of Editors; member, Nigerian Institute of Management; member, Imo State Committee on International Year of the Child, 1985; member, Sub-Commit tee on Information\/Publicity, Imo State De velopment Fund, 1986; member, Sub-Com mittee on Publicity, International Handball Championship, Owerri, Imo State, 19897. Hobbies: sports, in-door games, Christian music, travelling, discussions. Official Ad dress: Champion Newspapers Limited, 156\/ 158, Oshodi Apapa Expressway, Ilasamaja, Mushin, PO Box 2246, Oshodi, Lagos. Home: 2, Dr. Fasheun Avenue,Off Ago Pal ace Way, Okota, Isolo, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15659","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15659","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20089,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15659\/revisions\/20089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}