{"id":16208,"date":"2017-03-17T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16208"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:32:36","slug":"mkpong-onyong-dickson","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mkpong-onyong-dickson\/","title":{"rendered":"MKPONG, Onyong Dickson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, admin istrator, born October 18, 1936, Afaha Offiong, Western Nsit, Akwa Ibom State; married, has six children; Education: Nsit 11 Group School, Afaha Offiong, 1942-44, Government Practising School, Uyo, 1945, Qua Iboe MissionSecondary School, Etinan, 1946-51, Government Teachers&#8217; Training College, Uyo, 1953-54, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1958- 62, School of Education, University of Bristol, England, 1973-74; Career: Ap pointed Language Teacher, Cornelia Connelly College (CCC), Afaha Oku Uyo, 1962-68; appointed Principal, Cornelia Connelly College, Uyo, 1968-69; Examiner in Oral English, WASC\/GCE, 1963-80; Teacher, Exta-Mural Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1963-66; Assistant Exam iner in English Literature, WASC\/GCE, 1964-70; Principal and English Language teacher, St. Vincent&#8217;s Secondary School,Oti- Oron, 1969-74; Chairman, Board ofGover nors, Methodist Secondary School, Odot, 1972-73; Co-ordinator and Liaison Officer, Commonwealth Students for Programmed Tours\/Excursions,UniversityofBristol,UK, 1973-74; Principal, Holy Family College, Oku Abak, Abak, 1975-77; Principal,Gov ernment Technical School, Akata, Ikot Abasi, 1977-78; chairman, Board ofGovernors, St. Theresa&#8217;s Secondary School, Edem Ekpat, 1978-79; Registrar, College of Education, Uyo, 1978-83; Acting Registrar, University of Cross River State, Uyo, 1983; Acting Di rector of Administration, Unicross, Uyo, 1983, and Deputy Registrar, Unicross, 1983; appointed Registrar, Unicross, Uyo, 1987; member, Nigerian Union of Teachers, 1962- 78; Vice-Chairman, Uyo District Referees Association, 1965-67 and chairman, since 1968; executive member, Cross River State Referees Council, since 1968; Government Representative, Second All-Africa Games, Lagos, 1973;associate member,Nigerian In stitute of Management, 1977; associate mem ber, Nigerian Institute of Personnel Manage ment, 1982; member, British Institute of Management, 1982; member, Rotary Club of Uyo, since 1982; member, Nigerian Institute of Management, 1985; Vice-Chairman, Se nior Staff Association, Unicross, Uyo, since 1985; Hobbies: football athletics; Official Address: University of Cross River State, PMB 1017, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16208","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16208","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\/16208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16208"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}