{"id":5064,"date":"2025-11-29T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/edwin-clark-university-honors-tompolo-with-doctorate-degree\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:25:57","slug":"edwin-clark-university-honors-tompolo-with-doctorate-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/edwin-clark-university-honors-tompolo-with-doctorate-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Clark University Honors Tompolo With Doctorate Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Ebiowei Gabriel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edwin Clark University, Delta State, has conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LL.D) on High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, aka Tomopolo, in recognition of his contributions to peacebuilding and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prestigious award was accepted on his behalf by Dr. Paul Bebenimibo, Registrar of Maritime University, Okerenkoko, during the university&#8217;s 4th, 5th, 6th, &amp; 7th combined Convocation Ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ebiowei Gabriel Edwin Clark University, Delta State, has conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Laws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1634],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-edwin-clark-university-honors-tompolo-with-doctorate-degree"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_5301.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5076,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/pap-administrator-otuaro-congratulates-tompolo-on-honorary-doctorate-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":5064,"position":0},"title":"PAP Administrator, Otuaro Congratulates Tompolo On Honorary Doctorate Award","author":"Freeborn Abraye","date":"December 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Ebiowei Gabriel The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has extended heartfelt felicitations to High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, on the conferment of an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD) Degree by the Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, Delta State. 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