{"id":17748,"date":"2017-03-27T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17748"},"modified":"2017-05-31T04:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T03:35:31","slug":"wigwe-dr-chijoke-wilcox","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/wigwe-dr-chijoke-wilcox\/","title":{"rendered":"WIGWE, Dr. Chijoke Wilcox"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, Ph.D, FWC; lecturer, diplomat, administrator; b: June 6, 1951; p: Aba; ht: Umule; Iga: Osisioma Ngwa; so: Abia; married, has six children; ed: All Saints Primary School, Aba, 1957-63;Apostolic Grammer School, Aba (now Eziama High School, Aba), 1964-67; CMS Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos, 1969-72; University of Lagos, Akoka, 1973-76; University of Exerter. Devon, U.K, 1978-81; London School of Journalism, London, 1989- 91; National War College, Abuja, 2000-01; cr: Teacher, Government Teachers College, Lafia, (Now GovernmentCollege, Nassarawa), 1976- 77;Graduate asst Department of English &#038; Literary Studies, University of Calabar,1977; Lecturer, University of Jos, Plateau State, 1977-84; First sec Western &#038; Eastern Europe, European Affairs Division, 1984- 86; Special asst. to the dg. Directorate of Regions, 1986; Special asst. to the dg. Directorate of African Affairs, 1986; First sec. Economic &#038; Commercial Affairs, Embassy of Nigeria, Tokyo, Japan, 1986-87; Councillor, Economic &#038; Commercial Affairs, Embassy of Nigeria, Tokyo, Japan, 1987-89; Councillor, Trade and Investment Division, 1989; snr. Counsellor, Planning, Research &#038; Statistics Department 1992-93; snr. Counsellor\/Deputy Head of Mission, Desk Officer for Economic &#038; Bilateral Relations, Information and Culture, Embassy of Nigeria, Warsaw, Poland, 1994-98; min\/Deputy Head of Mission, 1998; asst dir. Appiontment, Promotion &#038; Establishment Division, 1998-99; asst dir\/Deputy Head, American &#038; Caribbean Affairs Division, 1999; asst dir\/Head, Research &#038; Statistics Division, 1999-2000; Deputy dir. Office of the Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, since February 2002; founding Editor-in-Chief, Nigerian, Journal of sociolinguists, University of Jos, 1982-84; mm: The English Associa tion, UK, the Association, Freelance Journalists.UK; publ: Lexical Reflections of Sociocultural Environment, Nigerian Journal of Sociolinguists,Vol 1, No I, 1983; Language,Culture and Society in West Africa ed. Ilfracombe, Devco, U.K, Stockwell Publishers, 1990; hon: Eudora Coker Memorial Prize, 1972; off: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maputo Street, Wuse Zone 3, P.M.B 130, Garki, Abuja; tel\/ fax: 09-5230835; res: Block 337, Flat 5, Mbabane Street, Wuse, Zone 6, Abuja; P.O. Box 12668, Wuse, Abuja; tel: 09-5235833; e-m: coxchiwigwe@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,2398],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17748","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-diplomat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17748","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17748"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}