{"id":8685,"date":"2017-01-24T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8685"},"modified":"2017-06-01T16:44:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:44:22","slug":"ogbu-edwin-ogebe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogbu-edwin-ogebe\/","title":{"rendered":"OGBU, Edwin Ogebe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servant, diplomat, former Nigerian Representative at the United Nations; Born December 28, 1926, Utonkon; Education: Bethune-Cockman College, Florida and Standord University, California, United States of America (USA); Career history: assistant secretary. Ministry of Finance, Kaduna 1957; secretary, Students&#8217; Affairs, Nigerian High Commission, London 1960; secretary. Federal Public Service Commission, 1960- 62; permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Works, 1962-63; permanent secretary. Federal Ministry of Finance, 1963-66; permanent secretary. Federal Ministry of External Affairs, 1966-68; permanent representative to the United Nations, 1968; high commissioner to Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana 1970; Married and has children; Address: c\/o Federal Ministry of External Affaris, Lagos; Hobby: photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8685","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8685","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\/8685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}