{"id":8548,"date":"2017-01-23T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8548"},"modified":"2017-05-04T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:11:51","slug":"ogan-dr-okoronkwo-kesandu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogan-dr-okoronkwo-kesandu\/","title":{"rendered":"OGAN, (Dr) Okoronkwo Kesandu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>physician; consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Chairman, Federal Public Service Commission; Born January 6, 1919, Bende Local Government area, Imo State; Education: Methodist College Uzuakoli;. King&#8217;s College, Lagos; Yaba School of Medicine; West London Medical School, 1950-52, University of London Medical School, 1952-54, 1956- 58; Career history: medical officer, Methodist Missionary Medical Service, old Eastern Nigeria, 1948-50; registrar, University of Ibadan, 1954; senior registrar, 1958; lecturer and honorary consultant, 1959; specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist, Federal Ministry of Health, Lagos, 1960; senior specialist, 1963-66; associate professor and head, Department of Obstetrics- and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nigeria, 1967-75; member, Royal College of Surgeons; licentiate. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons; member, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; foundation fellow, Nigeria Medical Council; inaugural president, Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria; Married and has children; Address (Home): Lugard Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos; (Office): Federal Public Service Com mission, Lagos; Hobby: reading, tennis, squash, gardening, music, drama, world&#8217;affairs and travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8548","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8548","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\/8548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}