{"id":17667,"date":"2021-12-02T17:18:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17667"},"modified":"2021-12-02T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:18:12","slug":"wayas-senator-dr-joseph","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/wayas-senator-dr-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"WAYAS, Sen. Dr. Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>administrator, businessman, politician; b: May 21, 1941; ht: Bassang, Obudu; so: Cross River; m: Mary Abiola; nc: four; ed: Central School, Sankwala, Obudu; St. Charles School, Obudu; Central Commercial Academy, Enugu; Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha; Higher Tottenham Technical College, London; West Bronwich College of Commerce, Science and Technology, Birmingham; Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, cr: Asst. Manager, M&#038;K, Lagos, 1960-63; Transport Controller\/Material Controller, 1963-64; Assistant Costing Manager\/ Investment Controller, Private Companies in London, 1968-69; Federal Government, 1969-72; comm. Transport, South Eastern State (now Cross River State), 1972-74; mm. Constituent Assembly, 1977- 78; dir. several Companies; presd: Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1979-83; political exile, 1984-87; returned to Nigeria and detained, 1987-88; Deputy ch. National Constitutional Conference Commission, Federal Military Government, 1994; mm: Society of International Affairs, Lincoln University, USA. pp: defunct National Party of Nigeria; member\/presidential aspirant, All Peoples Party. publ: Nigeria&#8217;s Leadership Role in Africa, died in a london hospital on thursday, December 2, 2021 after a protracted illness.<br \/>\n res: 12, Ekong Eta Street, Calabar, Cross River State,<br \/>\n tel: 087-221410.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,209,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17667","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-business-person","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17667","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26719,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17667\/revisions\/26719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17667"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}