{"id":6519,"date":"2016-11-15T13:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6519"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:45:30","slug":"arikpo-dr-okoi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/arikpo-dr-okoi\/","title":{"rendered":"ARIKPO (Dr.) Okoi(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> anthropologist, barrister-at-law, former Federal Com missioner for External Affairs, Born: 20 September, 1916; Educa tion: Church of Scotland Mission Ugep; Hope Waddell Training Insti tute Calabar, Government College Umuahia; Higher College Yaba, Uni versity College, London \u2014obtained B.A., B.Sc. (Hons. Lond) degrees; called to the Bar, Grays Inn London, 1956; was assistant master, Govern ment College Umuahia, 1937-38; assistant lecturer Chemistry, Higher College Yaba, 1939-42; Science Master, King&#8217;s College Lagos, 1943; Science Master Government College, Ibadan, 1944-45; research assistant and lecturer in anthropology, University College, London, 1949-51; Member Eastern House of Assembly 1951-53, and House of Representa tives 1953-54; served as Central Minister of Lands, Survey and Local Development, 1952-53, Minister of Mines and Power, 1953, private law practice 1954-67, was Secretary National Universities Commission Lagos 1964-67, appointed Federal Commissioner for Trade, June 1967 \u2014 September 1968 under Gowon&#8217;s government and Commissioner for External Affairs September 1968July 1975. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6519","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6519","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\/6519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}