{"id":6301,"date":"2016-11-11T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6301"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:04:24","slug":"amuta-dr-gershon-akotaobi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/amuta-dr-gershon-akotaobi\/","title":{"rendered":"AMUTA, Dr. Gershon Akotaobi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Ed, M.Ed, Ph.D, educationist, born June 13, 1945; married Patricia Nkechi Anyanwa 1977, two sons, three daughters; Education: Sacred Heart School, Umunkpeyi-Nvosi, Isiala-Ngwa, 1952-58, Ibo National High School, Aba, 1959-63, Advanced Teachers&#8217; Training College. Owerri, 1964-66, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, 1978-79. University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, 1979-81; Career: Appointed High School Teacher and later, Principal, 1967- 78: University Teacher in USA. 1980-81; Teacher, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, 1983 and 1984; retired voluntarily from Public Service, 1983; elected member and appointed Chief Whip,defunctImoState House of Assembly, October-December, 1983; Managing Director, Guiding Light Pharmaceutical Limited, Owerri; member, Constituent Assembly, 1988-89; member, Pi Delta Kappa, 1980; member, Kappa Delta Phi, University of Missouri, USA, 1980; member, Association of Childhood Educa tors International, since 1981; member, As sociation of Supervisionand Curriculum De velopment International, since 1981; mem ber PI LamdaTheta, 1981; member, Misouri Academy of Sciences, 1981: Political Party: member, defunct Nigerian Peoples Party; Hobbies: reading, music, lawn tennis; Of ficial Address: Guiding Light Pharmaceu tical Limited, 68, Mbari Street, P0 Box 3235, Owerri; Telephone: 083- 234972: Home: 12C Orlu Road, Owerri, Imo State. Tele phone: 083-234872. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6301","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6301","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\/6301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6301"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}