{"id":18455,"date":"2017-03-30T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18455"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:44:34","slug":"ukpong-dr-m-b","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ukpong-dr-m-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukpong, Dr. M.B."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born 1941 at Eka Umk Eshiet in Abak, Cross River State; Education: N.A. School, Ukanafon, 1949; Northern Annang County Teacher Training College, Abak, 1959; St. Mary&#8217;s T.T.C. Ediene, Abak 1962; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, 1967; University of Missonri, Columbia Mo, USA, 1968; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif; United States Inter national University, Sam Diego, 1970. Qualification: Teacher&#8217;s Grade 111 &#038; 11 certificates, B.Sc (Political Sociology), M.Sc (Pub. Admin), MPA (Master of Public Admin), PhD. Employment: Teacher in various schools in Abak and Ikot Ekpene 1958-64; Graduate Assis tant in several US Universities, 196870 and lecturer in Universities of Nigeria Nsukka and Calabar 1971-79; Author of many academic works and member ofmany professional, cultural and social organisations; married with children; elected NPN member for Abak, Cross River State in House of Representatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18455","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18455","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}