{"id":9342,"date":"2017-02-03T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9342"},"modified":"2020-08-31T13:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T12:36:37","slug":"essien-professor-okon-etim-akpan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/essien-professor-okon-etim-akpan\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSIEN, Professor Okon Etim Akpan(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Teacher, Pro fessor of Linguistics; LGA: !biono Ibom; Born: Jan. 10, 1942; Pa: Elder Etim A. Essien (d) and Mrs. Iquo E Essien (d); Married to Mrs. Maria O. Essien; &#8216;Children: Richard (26); Mabel (24), Ima (21), Inemesit (17), Anthony (14); Education: Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1954-58, WASC; Univ. of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1962-65, BA English; Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1967-68, MA Lmguistics; Univ. ofEdinburgb, Scotland, 1971- 74, Ph.D. Linguistics; Other Qualifications: Certifieate in Teaching English as a Second Language, 1968: Career and Work History: Graduate Teacher, Catholic Mission, Ikot Ekpenc. 1965-67&#8217; Lecturer Ahmadu Bello Univ., Zaria, 1968- 76; Senior Lectu;er, Professor, Univ. of Calabar, 1976-present; Head, Dept., Languages\/ Linguistics, Univ. of Caiabar, 1984-93; Dean, Faculty of Arts, Univ. ofCaiabar, 1991-95; Chainnan, Committee of Deans, 1993-95; Career Related Rt;Sponsibilities: Mem., Governing Board, Nigeria Educational ~esearch and Development Council. Abuja, 1990-94; Mem., Governing Council&#8221; Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, 1992-93; Mem., GoverniogCouncil, Univ. of Calabar, I 993-present; Special Work Related Achievemenn: Developed the Ibibio Language and caused it to be recognised as Nigeria&#8217;s fourth largest language within and in the International Linguistic Community; His academic publications are appreciated globally &#8211; USA, Europe, Japan, Austra1ia; Orthographed the Qua language; Publications: Books published globally; Chapters in books; articles in learned journals; Civic Activities: Secretary, South Eastern State Students Asscn., Los Aogeles, 1967-68; Secretary, Nigerian Union of Great Britain, Edinburgh, 1972-73; Financial Secretary, Good Samaritan Organisation, Calabar, 1980-82; Mem., Kano Club, Kano, 1969-76; Honours and Awards: Best Latin Student, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1958; Travel Grantee, Committee of Permanent Linguists and Linguistic\u00b7 Society of Morocco, Holland and Morocco, 1988; Obong S. Udo Etuk Excellence Award, Mboho MjqJarawa Ibibio, Uyo, 1990; Eminent Person &#8216; A~d, Federation of Akwa Ibom Women Asscns. (FAlWA), Uyo, 1995; Profes~ional Membeqhips: Various. President, Nigerian English Studies Asscn., 1974-76, Mem., Linguistic Asscn. of Nigeria, Mem. Ibibio Language Writers Asscn., Listed in Who &#8216;s Who in Nigeria, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership. 4th Edition; Who &#8216;s Who in the World. Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian; Hobbies Lawn, Table Tennis Classical Music, Reading of Biographies. A concerned Christian for the plight of the under privileged. Office: Dept. of Languages and Linguistics, Univ. of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State. Home: Ntan Ekere, Ibiono Ibom, Akwa Ibom State .\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9342","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9342","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26188,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9342\/revisions\/26188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}