{"id":7745,"date":"2017-01-12T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7745"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T09:59:55","slug":"briggs-wenike-opurum","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/briggs-wenike-opurum\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIGGS, Wenike Opurum"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>barristerat- Law, journalist, politician, former Federal Commissioner for Trade; Born at Abonnema, Rivers State March 10, 1918, Education: Nyemoni School Abonnema; King&#8217;s College Lagos; Polytechnic of Central London, University of Sheffied Eng land (external student); University of London; called to the Bar (Gray&#8217;s Inn) London, 1955; started career as a postal clerk and telegraphist in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs; customs officials in the Department of Customs and Excise, 1942-44; was sub-editor &#8220;Daily Service&#8221;, 1945-47; founder and editor &#8220;The Nigerian Statesman&#8221; in Aba, 1947; elected member of the House of Representa tives, 1959-66; appointed Federal Commissioner for Education; 1967- 71 and Federal Commissioner for Trade, 1971-75; member of the Island Club and Metropolitan Club, Lagos; Married and has three child ren; Address: c\/o Military Governor&#8217;s Office, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7745","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7745","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\/7745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}