{"id":9325,"date":"2017-02-03T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T06:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9325"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:25:52","slug":"ogunsanwo-ambassador-professor-alaba-cornelius-abiodun","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogunsanwo-ambassador-professor-alaba-cornelius-abiodun\/","title":{"rendered":"OGUNSANWO, Amb. (Prof) Alaba Cornelius Abiodun"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, M.Sc, Ph.D, political scientist, diplomat; Born: April 6,1942; Place: Ijebu-lmushin; State of Origin: Ogun; Married: Helen Wangari, 1972; No of Children: one daughter;<br \/>\nEDUCATION: St. Paul&#8217;s Catholic Church School, Ebute-Metta, St Patrick&#8217;s Catholic School, Yaba, 1952-55; St Gregory&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1956-1960; Awe High School, 1960-61; Government College, Ibadan, 1962-63; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1964-67; London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London<br \/>\n) UK, 1967-71;<br \/>\nCAREER: Accounts Clerk, Marketing Board, defunct Western Region, Ibadan, 1964; Administrative Officer, Federal Public Service Commission, Lagos, 1967; Lecturer II, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), lle-lfe, 1971 -73; Lecturer 1,1973-75; Senior Lecturer, University of Lagos, 1975; associate prof. Political Science, University of Lagos; prof. Political Science, since 1984; Part-time Lecturer, Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru; Part-time Lecturer, Foreign Service Academy\/Defence and Staff College, Jaji; Nigerian High Commissioner to Botswana, 1994; Nigerian Ambassador to Belgium, 1994-97; prof. Political Science, University of Lagos, Akoka; Political Science\/International Relations, Leads University, Ibadan, currently; mm: Nigerian Task Force on Foreign Policy, 1975-76; Nigerian Mission to Angola, 1976; National Advisory Council on Foreign Policy, 1977-79; National Committee against Apartheid, 1982; Nigerian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA,1984; Publication: China&#8217;s Policy in Africa, 1958-71, Cambridge University Press, 1974; Our Friends, Their Friends: Nigeria&#8217;s External Relations, 1960-85, Alfa Communications Limited, Lagos, 1986; and numerous articles in national and international scholarly journals; Hobbies: lawn tennis, table tennis; off: Department of Political Science\/International Relations, Leads University, . Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9325","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9325","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\/9325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}