{"id":6790,"date":"2016-11-16T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6790"},"modified":"2017-04-10T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:30:06","slug":"ayeni-peter-modupe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ayeni-peter-modupe\/","title":{"rendered":"AYENI, Peter Modupe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> (journalist, public relations officer, Chief Information Officer, Bendel State; Born. December 8, 1925, at Evbiamen- Emai in Bendel State; Education: Anglican Central School, Sabongida Ora up to 1941; United College of Commerce, 1943-45; Indiana Univer sity, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, 1960-61; took a UNESCO Fellowship for a specialist course in Kenya and Uganda, 1962; obtained Diploma in Mass Communi cation in 1961; worked as assistant editor, Southern Nigeria Defender, 1949-53; editor, Western News, 1962-63; public relations officer, Military Governor&#8217;s Office, Midwes tern State of Nigeria, 1966-69; was publicity secretary, Benin branch of the banned Zikist Movement, 1949; national president, Nigeria Union of Journalists, 1970-73; mem ber. Board of Governors, Midwest, now Bendel Mass Communications Corporation since 1974; member, Institute of Journalists; honorary citizen of Tennessee, Nashville, USA, author of &#8220;100 Nigerian Sayings&#8221; (1967), co-author of &#8216;Midwestern Nigeria at a Glance&#8221; (1971); Married, and has nine children, five daughters and four sons Address (Home) 4, Second West Circular Road, Behind Ologbosere College, Benin City, Ben del State; (Office): Ministry, of Information, Benin City, Edo State; Phone: 590, 573; Hobby: ihotography and lawn tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6790","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6790","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19116,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6790\/revisions\/19116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}