Nsikak Essien, a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors[FNGE] is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka[Electrical and Electronic Engineering] and University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom[post graduate degree in Microelectronics]. He is also an alumnus of the Lagos Business School.<\/p>\n
After six years working as an engineer in NEPA and UACN, he moved into journalism practice, rising to the position of the 5th<\/sup> Editor of National Concord newspaper in Lagos. Before that he was the 2nd<\/sup> Editor of Business Concord newspaper in Lagos. He attended numerous industrial training programmes in both engineering and journalism. He was also the Chairman of Akwa Ibom Newspaper Corporation[AKNC], publishers of the Pioneer newspapers in Uyo.<\/p>\n His high points in Reporting in journalism practice were the two time coverage of the Meetings of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries[OPEC] in Vienna, Austria and Geneva, Switzerland, as well as four time coverage of Annual General Meetings of African Development Bank in Abidjan[Cote D\u2019voire] and Nairobi, Kenya. He was also a member of the United Nations sponsored Federal Government delegation to Malaysia. He is widely travelled around the world in the course of journalism and engineering practice.<\/p>\n He is a member of Raffia City Literary Club, Ikot Ekpene and is currently the Chairman of the Board of Patrons of the Club.<\/p>\n Nsikak Essien is the Chairman\/Chief Executive of Union Communications and Publications Limited, which produces newspapers, magazines and books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nsikak Essien, a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors[FNGE] is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka[Electrical and Electronic Engineering] and University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom[post graduate degree in Microelectronics]. He is also an alumnus of the Lagos Business School. After six years working as an engineer in NEPA and UACN, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27252,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27250\/revisions\/27252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}