{"id":15698,"date":"2017-03-14T18:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15698"},"modified":"2017-04-27T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T09:38:21","slug":"iroh-dr-eddie-okechukwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/iroh-dr-eddie-okechukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"IROH, Dr. Eddie Okechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OON; journalist, novelist, publisher, administrator, b:April21,1945; p:Mgboma,so: Imo; m: Margit Elizabeth Zohrar, 1978; ed: St. Theresa&#8217;s Primary School, Mgboma, 1951-57; Correspondence Course, UniversityofUndon, England, 1960-65; en Ministry oflnformation,Enugu,1967-70; CorrespondentReutersNews Agency,1970- 73;Editorial Represen-tative,Evans Publishers, 1973-74; Executive Producer, Nigerian Television, Enugu, 1974-79;Head, Documentaryand Features Department Nigerian Television Authority, 1979; assoc ed. NewAfrican and AfricanBusinessMagazines,previously;mg. ed. TheGuardian, andlater reg.ed. Europe andNorth America(Undon), 1983-87; Publisher\/ce. CHIC Magazine, Undon, 1988; d-g.Federal RadioCorporation ofNigeria,1999- 05; ch. NigerianTelevision Festival PlanningCommittee, 1979; presd. National Radio and Television OrganisationsofAfrica,42ndGeneral Assembly ofthe 52-member Organisation, Maputo, Mozambique, 2004; award: Recipient International Board of Books forYoung People, Tokyo,Japan, 1986; hd: Honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Administration, ImoState University, 2004;publ:: Forty-eight Gunsfor the General, Heinemann, 1976, Toads of War, Heinemann, 1979,ASirenin the Night, Heinemann, 1982, Withouta SilverSpoon, Spectrum Books, 1981; hob: music,reading, writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452,2415],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15698","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media","category-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15698","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15698"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}