{"id":157617,"date":"2013-08-23T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/bongos-ikwue-appointed-nigerian-film-corporation-board-chairman\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:52:00","slug":"bongos-ikwue-appointed-nigerian-film-corporation-board-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/08\/23\/bongos-ikwue-appointed-nigerian-film-corporation-board-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bongos Ikwue appointed Nigerian Film Corporation board chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SimpleReach Slide Plugin Version: 0.7.6 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Amaka Ojo<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151812\" alt=\"Bongo Ikwue. Photo:Tony Nwajei Post\" src=\"http:\/\/thenetng.blackhousemedia.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bongo-Ikwue.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"875\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bongo Ikwue. Photo:Tony Nwajei Post<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Popular music maestro and ace entertainer, <strong>Bongos Ikwue<\/strong> has been appointed as the new\u00a0chairman of the <strong>Nigerian Film Corporation,<\/strong> (<strong>NFC<\/strong>) board.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran artiste was recently appointed by President <strong>Goodluck Jonathan<\/strong> to head\u00a0the film corporation board.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment comes after several movie practitioners boycotted a media parley\u00a0organised by the Nigerian Film corporation recently to show their lack of confidence in the\u00a0film corporation\u2019s newly-appointed MD,<strong> Danjuma Dadu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>70 year\u00a0old\u00a0Bongos is legendary for his music, especially for the creation of the\u00a0soundtrack of popular TV drama series\u00a0<strong>Cock Crow at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dawn<\/strong>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Amaka Ojo Bongo Ikwue. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}