{"id":7323,"date":"2017-01-09T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T09:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7323"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:28:52","slug":"oaiya-frederic-akhamiator","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oaiya-frederic-akhamiator\/","title":{"rendered":"OAIYA, Frederic Akhamiator"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>electronic and communications engineer, broadcaster, born September 16, 1935, Ekpoma, Bendel State; married Angelina Erhuigbe 1961, five sons, one daughter; Education: St Andrew&#8217;s Primary School, Eguare, Ekpoma, 1943-50, Yaba Technical Institute, 1950-53, 1958-60. Southampton Technical College, England, 1960-63; appointed Assistant Engineer and later Engineer, Eastern, Western, Northern Regions and Lagos Headquarters of defunct Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, 1962-70; Principal Engineer, former Nigerian Broad casting Corporation-Television (NBC-TV), Victoria Island, Lagos, 1971-77; Assistant Chief Engineer and Officer-in-Charge, Nigerian Television Authority, Channel 9, Calabar, 1977-78; acting Chief Engineer, Operations and Standards, NTA, 1979-80; Chief Engineer, Planning, 1980-83; acting Director, NTA, Abuja Projects, 1984-85; acting General Manager, NTA, Benin, Benin City, 1985-87; General Manager, NTA, Benin, since April 1987; member, Institution of Elec tronics Engineers, 1968; member, Nigerian Society of Engineers, 1975; Registered Engineer \u2014 Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN), 1973; Hobbies: smallscale farming, reading, rotary activities; Official Address:.Nigerian Television Authority, West Circular Road, PMB 1117, Benin City, Bendel State; Telephone: (052) 243458; Home: 78 Akhionbare Avenue, GRA, Benin City, Bendel State; Telephone: (052) 245591 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7323","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7323","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}