{"id":6234,"date":"2016-11-10T11:21:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6234"},"modified":"2017-04-10T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:51:14","slug":"amakiri-dr-anthony-amos","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/amakiri-dr-anthony-amos\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAKIRI, Dr.Anthony Amos"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A,M.Sc, Ph.D,journalist, media consultant, born Au gust 24 1946; married Fabiya Ine Fredericks 1984; Education: Baptist DaySchool,Old Bakana, Baptist HighSchool, Port Harcourt, University ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1973, Uni versity College of London, 1976-77, Univer sity of Leicester, England, 1981-84; Career: Appointed in Shell BP Petroleum Develop ment Company, 1963-66;National Oil Com pany, 1970;Publications Officer, Ministry of Information, Benue\/Plateau State, 1973-74; Assistant Editor-in-charge, National News, 1974-75; Features Editor\/Acting Editor, Sun day Tide, 1978; Editor, Sunday Tide, 1978- 79; Acting Editor, Nigerian Tide, 1980-81; Editor, Nigerian Tide, 1986-89; General Manager, Rivers State Newspaper Corpora tion, Port Harcourt, 1989-92; Media Consult ant to Nigerian Agip Oil Company, Port Harcourt, 1997-98; Chairman\/Managing Di rector, Perian Enterprises, (Public Relations Consultancy) till date; Member, &#038; Director of Research, Rivers State Consultative Fo rum, Secretary, Nigeria\/Yugoslavia Friend ship Society, 1966; General Secretary, Na tional Union of Rivers State Students, 1971; Secretary, University ofNigeria Press Club, 1972; Secretary, University ofNigeria Alumni Association, Rivers Branch, 1976; Member, Publicity Committee of the Politi cal Bureau in Rivers State, 1986; Member, Committee on National Policy on Housing, Rivers State, 1987; Member, Organising Committee of the 6th Rivers State Sports Festival, 1987; Member, Sub-Committee on Publicity and Public Relations, 7th National Sports Festival, 1988; Member, Public En lightenment Committee onTransition to Civil Rule, Rivers State, 1989-91; Member &#038; Protem Secretary, Think Tank on Govern ment Information Policy and Strategy, Riv ers State, 1989-91; Award\/Honour: Listed, Who&#8217;s Who in Africa, 1981; listed, Dictio nary of International Biography, Cambridge. 1997; Political Party: Member, Secretary&#038;&#8217; Deputy Governorship Candidate, Alliance for Democracy, AD; Rivers State, 1999; Publication: The Left in Nigerian Politics, Amkra Books, Lagos, 1998; and several other articles on National and International Affairs; Hobbies: reading, writing; Official Address: PO Box 1042, Port Harcourt; Home: 6, Woji Road, GRA Phase II, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Telephone: 084- 231475. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6234","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6234","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}