{"id":17576,"date":"2017-03-26T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T06:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17576"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:57:17","slug":"lanipekun-fabio-adeshola-ayinia","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/lanipekun-fabio-adeshola-ayinia\/","title":{"rendered":"LANIPEKUN, Fabio Adeshola Ayinia"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>journalist; b: March 2, 1942; p: Lagos;m: Mary OlaronkeOnasanya; nc: one s, three d; ed: Ansar Ud-Deen Primary School, Okepopo, Lagos, 1947-55, Methodist Boys High School, Lagos, 1956-61; Regent Street Polytechnic, London, 1966. cr: Reporter, Daily and Sunday Express, Lagos, 1962-64; Associate Editor, African Observer, London, 1965-66; News asst, BBC World Service, Bush House, Undon, 1967-68; Sub-Editor, Radio Nigeria, Broadcasting House, Ikoyi, Ugos, 1968-69; First Sports Editor, Western Nigeria Television and Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service, Ibadan, 1969;Controller ofSports, Nigerian TelevisionAuthority, 1983; Manager Sports, 1984; retired from Nigerian Television Authority, 1995;ceo: Fabio Lanipekun and Associates, Fabilan Enterprises; ch: Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (West), 1970-71; covered Nigerian National Sports Festival, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1991; covered All Africa Games, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1991, 1995;mm: Press Publicity and Public Relations Sub Committee, 2nd All Africa Games, Lagos, 1973; covered ECOWAS Games, 1977; ch: Welfare Committee, Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, 1975; Organising Committee, 4tn National Sports Festival; covered Olympic Games, Moscow 1980; Los Angeles 1984; Seoul 1988; Barcelona, 1992;covered FIFA Championships: Moscow &#8217;85; Canada &#8217;87; Saudi Arabia &#8217;89; Scotland &#8217;89; covered World Cup: Mexico &#8217;86; Italia &#8217;90; USA &#8217;94; mm. Organising Committee, African Basketball Championships, 1987; Federal Government appointed Committee for Funding Sports, 1990;Local Organising Committee, FIFAWorld Youth Championships, 1995; Publicity Committee, African Youth Soccer Championships, 1995; National Sports Commission appointed Committee on Hall of Fame, 1995; ch: Sponsorship and Marketing Committee, Atlanta &#8217;96, Federal Ministry ofSports; mm: Executive Board, Nigeria Olympic Committee; Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Olympic Committee, 1997; Nigeria Union of Journalists; founding mem. Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Association of Interna tional Sports Press, 1992. sc: Island Club, Ugos. hob: Music, draught. off: Nigeria Olympic Committee, National Stadium, Lagos, tel: 015850529. res: 51,Adisa Bashua Street, Surulere, Ugos. tel:01-832096.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17576","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17576","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\/17576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17576"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}