{"id":10185,"date":"2026-05-07T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:13:00","slug":"breaking-onigbinde-becomes-new-maran-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2026\/05\/07\/breaking-onigbinde-becomes-new-maran-president\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Onigbinde Becomes New MARAN President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oluyinka Onigbinde, Assistant Editor of Shipping Position Daily, has been elected President of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) following a keenly contested elective congress.  <\/p>\n<p>Onigbinde secured 20 votes to defeat veteran maritime journalist Reverend John Iwori, who polled 13 votes out of a total of 33 cast.  <\/p>\n<p>The election also produced other executives who will steer the affairs of MARAN in the new tenure: Vice President: Obasi Sylvanus (unopposed), General Secretary: Fabian Anawo, Assistant General Secretary: Ojelabi Amina, Public Relations Officer (PRO): Ayanfeoluwa Providence, Treasurer: Ruth Umuna, and Financial Secretary: Ambrose Okehi (unopposed). <\/p>\n<p>The newly elected leadership is expected to promote professionalism, welfare, and unity among members of the association while strengthening MARAN\u2019s role in Nigeria\u2019s maritime industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oluyinka Onigbinde, Assistant Editor of Shipping Position Daily, has been elected President of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) following a keenly contested elective congress. Onigbinde secured 20 votes to defeat veteran maritime journalist Reverend John Iwori, who polled 13 votes out of a total of 33 cast. The election also produced other executives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}