{"id":8682,"date":"2017-01-24T14:31:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8682"},"modified":"2017-04-20T02:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:33:50","slug":"ekwere-chief-john-dickson","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekwere-chief-john-dickson\/","title":{"rendered":"EKWERE, Chief John Dickson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, broadcaster, journalist, born October 26, 1933, Etinam, Akwa Ibom State; married Ufok Regina, has children; Education: St John&#8217;s School, Etinan, John Kirk Memorial School, Etinan, Etinan Institute, University College (now University ofIbadan), Ibadan, Rose BrufordCollege of Speechand Drama, Sidcup, Kent, England; Career: Appointed Senior Producer, Eastern Nigeria Broadcast ing Corporation, Enugu, 1960-65; Deputy Director of Programmes, 1965; appointed Director of Programmes, Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation, 1966; Chief In formation Officer, Ministry of Information, South Eastern State (now Cross River), 1970- .75; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Infor mation and Cultural Affairs, Calabar, 1975- 76; appointed Director-General, Akwa Ibom Television Service, Uyo, 1983-87; appointed Managing Director, Akwa Ibom Broadcast ing Corporation, 1987-February 1989;mem ber, International Theatre Institute; associ ate member, British Drama Board, 1960; Na tional Honour: awarded Officer ofthe Or der ofthe Federal Republic (OFR), 1965; Hobbies: lawn tennis, photography; Official Address: Etinan Local Government, Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8682","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8682","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19502,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8682\/revisions\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}