{"id":9260,"date":"2017-02-02T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9260"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:36:33","slug":"essien-efiong","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/essien-efiong\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSIEN, Efiong"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> journalist, economist, former General Manager, Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, publi shers of the Chronicle; Born: March 13, 1941 at Itan, Itu Local Government area; Cross River State; Education: University of Lagos &#8211; obtained B.Sc, (Busi. Administration); attended Uni versity of Cardiff for a course in Finan cial Journalism; took up appointment as assistant economist, Research Depar tment of Central Bank of Nigeria; later joined the Daily Times of Nigeria as economics editor, subsequently becoming editor. Business Times, one of the Times Group weekly news papers; member, Anti-Inflation Task Force; was appointed general manager Cross River State Newspaper Corpora tion in 1976; Married and has two children; Address (Home) SESCOT children; Hobby: writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9260","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9260","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\/9260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}