{"id":18986,"date":"2017-04-03T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18986"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:09:24","slug":"thompson-babatunde-ozemoya-palmer","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/thompson-babatunde-ozemoya-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, Babatunde Ozemoya Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc (Hons), journalist, born August 2, 1951, Uroe via Uzebba and Otwa, Owan, Bendel State; married Juliana Ketu Williams 1978, two sons, two daughters; Education: Salvation Army School, Ibeshe, Lagos, 1957-59, Ladi-Lak Institute, Yaba, Lagos, 1959-63, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1964-70, University of Ibadan, 1972-75; Sub-Editor, and later Features Writer, Daily Times, 1971-72; Features Writer, and later Features Editor, Political Editor\/Ombudsman, Daily Sketch, Ibadan, 1976-78; Public Relations Officer, Messrs 158 Baresel Limited (Construc tion and Civil Engineering), Oregun, Ikeja, 1978-80; Senior Leader Writer, Daily Times Editorial Board, 1980-83; Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, The Guardian, 1983-85; Managing Editor, Guardian Newspapers Limi ted, April 1985-November 1988; Director, Thotcomms (Public Affairs, Public Relations, Publicity and Advertising Company), Lagos, since December 1988; member, The Common wealth Journalists&#8217; Association, since 1987; Vice-President, Commonwealth Journalists Association, Nigerian Chapter, since November 1988; fellow, Royal Commonwealth Society, since 1987; Press fellow (Press Fellowship Pro gramme)) Wolfson College,Cambridge Univer sity, UK, September-December 1987; Publica tion ; Fractured Jail Sentence (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1988); Hobbies: writing, debate, drama, public affairs, social work; Official Address: Thotcomms. 7 Association Avenue, Ilupeju, Lagos; Telephone: (01)964029, 934129: Home Address: 5, Sunmola Street, Okupe Estate, Maryland, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18986","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18986","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18986"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}