{"id":8431,"date":"2017-01-19T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8431"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:38:37","slug":"ofiaja-prof-nicolas-dimkpa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ofiaja-prof-nicolas-dimkpa\/","title":{"rendered":"OFIAJA, Prof. Nicolas Dimkpa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., diplomat; b: September 30, 1934; ed: University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1963; City University of New York, USA, 1970; Columbia University, 1971, 1972, 1979.<br \/>\nCareer: Nigerian Foreign Service, 1963-65; Consular and Diplomatic Service, New York, 1966-70; Co-ordinator of Afro- American Studies, Board for Education, New York, 1970-72; prof. African Studies, City University of New York, 1972-80; Special leave to Direct Research and Archives for the Rivers State Government, 1981-82; Life f. International Biographical Association, American Association of University prof; mm: American Scholars Association; American Political Science Association; Smithsonian Institution of African Studies Association, h: International Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service to Education, 1979.<br \/>\npubl: Stability and Instability in Politics; off: Dr. Organ&#8217;s Estate, P.O. Box 397, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8431","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8431","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\/8431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}