{"id":9233,"date":"2017-02-02T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9233"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T12:57:46","slug":"essien-his-highness-edidem-nyong","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/essien-his-highness-edidem-nyong\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSIEN, (His Highness) Edidem Nyong"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> (full name &#8211; Nyong Akpan Efiom Iwatt Efembe Efiom), tradi tional ruler, teacher, retired civil servant, Nsom of &#8216;Uruan; Born on November 9,1872; Education: atten ded Duke Town School, Calabar, 1900 &#8211; passed Standard Seven in 1907; taught in Duke Town School, 1908-1909 and became a missionary and preacher in Methodist Church at Issiet Ekim Town; joined the Judici ary as a confidential clerk and interpreter of the Supreme Court in Calabar under Justice Webber, Jus tice Herbert Norman Cleverly and Philip Peter-Rides in 1918; co-foun der of the banned N.C.N.C. party with late Herbert Macaulay and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe; one time President of the Eastern House of Chiefs; was conferred with an honorary degree in law, awarded C.M.G. in 1960, and C.O.N, in 1964; paramount ruler of Uyo Division, cjan head of Uruan (Nsom of Uruan), president of Uruan County Development Council, Idu, and president of Uyo Divisional Council of Chiefs;.Married and has 12 children, Address: (Home) Nsom&#8217;s Palace, Issiet Ekim Town, Southern Uruan, Uyo; (Office): c\/o No. 2 Gibbs Street, Uyo, Cross River State; Hobby: interested in History, book reading, tennis and other indoor games, owns one of the largest private libraries in Nigeria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219,389],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9233","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service","category-royalty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9233","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}