{"id":7172,"date":"2016-12-15T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7172"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T10:51:47","slug":"banjo-dr-ladipo-ayodeji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/banjo-dr-ladipo-ayodeji\/","title":{"rendered":"BANJO, (Dr.) Ladipo Ayodeji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ling uist educationist, Reader in English Language, University of Ibadan; Born: May 2, 1934 at Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State Education: Igbobi College, Lagos, 19 48-1951; Nigerian College of Arts Science and Technology, Ibadan, 19 53-59, University of Leeds, England 1959-60; holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees; obtained Post Graduate Cer tificate in Education, 1960 and Post graduate Diploma in English Studies, 1965, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1965-66; appointed education officer, former Western Ni geria, 1966; lecturer. University of Iba dan, 1966-71, promoted senior lectu rer. University of Ibadan, 1971 and reader, 1973; president Nigeria English Studies Association; member. West Af rican Linguistic Society; member West African Modern Language Association; author of &#8220;Oral English&#8221; (Allen and Unwin, 1970), &#8220;Letter Writing&#8221; (Lon gman, 1974), &#8220;Effective Use of Eng lish&#8221; (Thomas Nelson, 1975); Married and has four children &#8211; two daughters and two sons, Address (Home): 15 Sankore Avenue, University of Ibadan Telephone: 62550 &#8211; Extension 1723 (Office): Department of English, Uni versity of Ibadan, &#8216;Ibadan, Oyo State Telephone: 62550, extension 1463 Hobby: tennis, music,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7172","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7172","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\/7172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}