{"id":15870,"date":"2017-03-15T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15870"},"modified":"2017-04-26T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:39:44","slug":"mbakwem-mrs-mercy-nen","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mbakwem-mrs-mercy-nen\/","title":{"rendered":"MBAKWEM, (Mrs.) Mercy Nen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>edu cationist, Principal, Women&#8217;s Training College (WTC), Umuahia; Born: Augu st 1, 1928 at Abiriba, Imo State; Edu cation: attended CMS School, Ikot- Offiong, Itu, Cross River State, 1933- 37; Edgerley Memorial School, Calabar 1938-39; Hope Waddell Traning Insti tution, Calabar, 1940-41; WTC Umua hia, 1945-47; studied abroad at Insti tute of Education, University of Lon don, 1953-54 &#8211; obtained Teachers&#8217; Professional Certificate, 1954; Lough borough Training College, Moray Hou se Training College, Edinburgh, Scot land, 1954-55 &#8211; got Ministry of Educa tion Certificate, UK, 1955; was head mistress, CMS (junior primary) School Abiriba, 1948-53; vice-principal, St. Anne&#8217;s WTC, Umuobasi, 1956-57; principal, WTC Ezeoke, Nsu, 1958-65; vice-principal, Egbu Girl&#8217;s Secondary School, Owerri, 1970-71; senior mis tress, Baptist TTC, Obinze, Owerri, 1970-71; senior mistress, Lasbery TTC Irrette, Owerri, February 1970-72; member. International Women&#8217;s As sociation; member, Business and Pro fessional Woman&#8217;s Club; appointed principal, Women&#8217;s Training College (WTC), Umuahia in 1972; Married and has one son and one daughter; Address Women&#8217;s Training College, P.O.Box 144, Umuahia, Imo State; Hobby- Knitting, reading, gardening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15870","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15870","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}