{"id":7228,"date":"2016-12-19T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7228"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:01:37","slug":"bassey-chief-antigha-eyo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bassey-chief-antigha-eyo\/","title":{"rendered":"BASSEY, Chief Antigha Eyo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Journalist Politician. Fo nner &#8216;Chairman, Oron Local Govt, 199 1;Born: Apr. 3, 1952: Pa: Eyo A. Bas&#8217;sey (d) and Afiong E. Bassey; Married; Chil dren : Eyo: Oje.; Education: Kings Coli, Lagos, 1964-66; Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Oron, 1967-69; WASC; Univ. of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1970-75, B.A. (Hans); Career and Wo rk History: Practising Journa list; Executive Chainnan, Defunct Oron Local Government \/991&#8242; Special Work Related Achievements: A Pionee; in the political battle for the abrogation oftheonshorcl off shorc dichotomy principle and the enthronement of the principle of derivation in the administration of National Income accruing from crude oil mining activities; Facilitated the broadcast of Or on Language on AKS Television; Instrumental to the resuscitation of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria; Political Activities: Pub licity Secretary; and thcn Secretary, Cross River State Wing of the National Party of Nigeria. 1979-83; Presidcntial Aspirant, NPN, 1993: Honour: Chieftaincy title by Oron Ethnic Community. Chief Bassey believes that we must do good, not in a display ofwcalth or of perceived moral superiority orto humiliate the beneficiary but as an act of courage and grace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7228","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7228","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\/7228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}