{"id":7611,"date":"2017-01-11T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7611"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:05:40","slug":"obey-john-upan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obey-john-upan\/","title":{"rendered":"OBEY, John Upan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>politician, educationist, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Cross River State; Born 1918 at Buabong, Obudu; Education Roman Catholic Mission (RCM), Obudu Primary School, 1923-27; RCM Primary School, Ogoja, 1928- 29; C.K.C., Onitsha, 1934-37; Senior Seminary, Enugu, 1940-42; Senior Seminary, Okpuala, 1944; University College, Cork, Eire 1950-53; Institute of Education, University of Lon don, 1953-54 (Diploma in Catholic Apologetics, 1952; Diploma in Education), 1954; obtained B.A.; Career: teacher, 1932-33, 1938-39, 1943, 1945-50 and 1954-58; member, old Eastern Region Library Board, 1956-57, member, Federal Parliament, 1959-66; member. Board of Governors, St. Patrick&#8217;s College, Ikot-Ansa, Calabar, 1972-75; Foreign Honour: Papal Knight of St. Sylvester; Married and has children; Address (Home): Buabong, Obudu, Cross River State; (Office) Public Service Commission, 3 Adazi Street, Calabar, Cross River State; Hobby: gardening, chess, draughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,166,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7611","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-politics","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7611","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\/7611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}