{"id":6700,"date":"2016-11-16T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6700"},"modified":"2017-11-28T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:53:03","slug":"awachie-professor-james-egbunike","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/awachie-professor-james-egbunike\/","title":{"rendered":"AWACHIE (Prof) James Egbunike"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zoologist, educationist, Professor of Zoology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Born: February, 1934 at Umunachi, Idemili Local Government Area, Anambra State; Education: Christ the King College, Onitsha, 1948-53; University College, Ibadan, 1953-58; University of Liverpool, Eng land, 1961-63, holds the B.Sc and Ph.D degrees was senior science mas ter, St. Theresa&#8217;s College, Nsukka, 1958-59; research\/development mana ger. Lever Brothers Ltd., Apapa, Lagos 1959; part-time lecturer, Federal Sch ool of Science, Lagos, 1959, lecturer in Zoology, Nigerian College of Technology, Zaria, 1959-61, later Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1961- 63; lecturer in Biology, University of Lagos, 1964-65, lecturer in Zoo logy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 1965-70; senior lecturer, 1970-73, promoted professor in July, 1973; foundation fellow. Science Association of Nigeria; member of a number of scientific organisations including World University Service, (1955-63); British Society for Parasitology; Inter national Congress of Parasitology, Fresh-Water Biology Association, Uni ted Kingdom, and Committee of Fellows, Science Association of Nige ria; Married and has four children; Address (Home) Ikejiani Avenue, Nsukka Campus, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. (Office). Department of Zoo logy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Anambra State; Telephone: 48, ext. 44; Hobby: gardening, farming, photo graphy, folk music, dancing, lawn tennis and table tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,2402],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6700","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-zoologist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6700","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\/6700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}