{"id":7564,"date":"2017-01-11T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7564"},"modified":"2017-05-26T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:29:08","slug":"obasi-prince-emeka","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obasi-prince-emeka\/","title":{"rendered":"OBASI, Prince Emeka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, journalist, born February 10, 1964, Umuahia, Ibeku, married Betty Mankini Amune 2000; Edu cation:Community Primary School,Ahiaeke Ibeku, Umuahia, 1971-76, Ibeku High School, Umuahia, 1982, University ofCala bar, Calabar, 1983-87; Career: Appointed Reporter, Newswatch. 1987-89; Features Editor, Classique Magazine, 1989-90; Presi dent, Cameo Adventures Limited, Lagos, 1990-93; President\/Chief Executive Officer, Patrioni Limited, Public Relations Consult ant, since 1993; Publisher\/Editor-in-Chief, Hallmark Newspapers, 1999; member,Me dia Advisory Committee, Imo State, 1998; member, Nigerian Unionof Journalist; mem ber,Nigerian Publishers Association; Execu tive Secretary, Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre; Secretary, Mohammed BelloEndowment inJurisprudence; founder, National Arts Foundation; founder\/initiator, Awolowo Foundation; founder\/initiator, The Yakubu Gowon Centre; Award\/Honour: . Recipient, Certificate of Merit, Editorial, Newswatch magazine, the Role Model En trepreneurial Award, 1993; Political Party: Member, defunct Social Democratic Party, (SDP); Publications: In the Course ofJus tice, Honorable Justice Mohammed Bello, Chief Justice of Nigeria; A Pencil in God&#8217;s Hand, An authorized Biography ofArch bishop Benson Idahosa; The Judiciary And The Challenges ofJustice, byJustice M.M.A. Akanbi, President, Court of Appeal, Nige ria; Yours InService, An authorized Biog raphy of Chief (Mrs) Ronke Doherty; Law And Statesmanship: The Legacy of Sir Udoma; In The Service of My Country, A Biography of Alhaji Abdulrahman Okene; Hobbies: reading, writing, intellectual dis course,poetry, music, literature; Official Address: Hallmark Newspapers, No.2k,Obasa Close, Off Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja; Tele phone: 01-497-6865,493-5230, 493-5231, 090-409-227; Home: Plot469,Akin Laguda Street, Off Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7564","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7564","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\/7564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}