{"id":8895,"date":"2017-01-26T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8895"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T08:40:29","slug":"fasina-thomas-chief-ajibade","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/fasina-thomas-chief-ajibade\/","title":{"rendered":"FASINA-THOMAS, Chief Ajibade"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>journalist, media and public relations consultant, administrator; m: Cecilia Adebisi Oludaiye, 1965,nc: three s, two d; ed: St. David&#8217;s School, Lafiaji, Lagos, Lagos State, 1947-54; Nigerian People&#8217;s High School, Lagos, 1955-57; Bap tist Academy, Lagos, 1958-60; London School of Journalism, Lon don, UK, 1962-64; Indiana University, Bloomington. Indiana. USA. 1971-72; German Foundation for Developing Countries, Institute of Journalism, Berlin, Germany, 1965. cr: Reporter, Daily Times 1960- 61; Senior Sports Reporter, 1962; asst. Sports Editor, 1964; Acting Editor, Sporting Record, 1964; Society Columnist, Paul Pry, 1964- 66; Senior Sub-editor, 1966; ag. Editor, Spear magazine, 1967; Acting Editor, Lagos Weekend, 1968; Features Editor, Dailv Express, 1969; Assistant Editor, 1969; Editor, 1970-72; asst General Manager, 1972- 73; asst Editor, Sunday Punch. 1973; Editor, Sundav Punch, 1974- 76; Principal Public Relations Officer, National Sports Commission, Lagos, 1976-83; Public Relations Manager, 1983-89; foundation mm\/ first publicity sec. Sports Writers&#8217; Association of Nigeria, 1964-69; publicity sec\/ag. hon. sec, Nigeria Union of Journalists. Lagos State] 1968-71; social\/publicity sec. Nigeria Guild of Editors, 1973-75; ch. Sports Writers&#8217; Association of Nigeria, 1972-73; mm: International Association of Sports Journalists, since 1972; Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, 1976; Sigma Delta Phi, USA, since 1971; foundation mm\/convener, Nigerian Association of Patriotic Writers and Artistes, 1971; presd.National League of Veteran Journalists, 1990-94; ch. Nigerian Weightlifting Federation, 1994-95; Church Secretary, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Lagos, Lagos State, 1998. h: Commander of the Order of the Peacock, Island Club, Lagos, 1991. pp: sec.Youth Association, C Ward, Lagos Island, defunct Action Group, 1959. tt: Atoyese Iganna, Oyo State, 1994. sc: Island Club, Lagos; Yoruba Ten nis Club, Lagos; Eko Club, Lagos; Club 2, Lagos, hob: table tennis, squash racket, reading, listening to comedy programmes, watching soap opera, off: 9 Eric Moore Close, Surulere, Lagos, tel: 01-836214. res:22, Fehintola Giwa Street, Aguda, Surulere, P.O. Box 3249, Surulere, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8895","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8895","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\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}