{"id":10315,"date":"2017-02-12T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10315"},"modified":"2017-04-21T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:05:45","slug":"gana-abba-jiddun","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gana-abba-jiddun\/","title":{"rendered":"GANA, Abba Jiddun"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>company direc tor, civil servant, public relations offi cer, diplomat, Managing Director, Ni gerian Food Comapny Ltd., Lagos, Born: June 18, 1922; Education: Bomb Middle School, Kaduna Colle ge; University of London Summer School; attended courses in the UK and USA; civil servant, 1943-68, assistant publicity officer (Regional Public Relations Department), Nor thern Regional organising secretary, Extra Mural Studies \u2022 University Col lege, Ibadan, assistant regional public relations officer, later re-designated information officer, commissioner for Northern Nigerian in United Kingdom; appointed chairman, Gaskiya Corporation, Zaria; Managing Director of Nigeria Food Company Ltd., Lagos; director of DailyTimes (Nigeria) Ltd., director of New.Nige rian Newspapers Ltd., member of Fe deral Scholarship Advisory Board; member. North Eastern State Consul tative Committee, awarded Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), 1964; Published two works &#8220;Our Land and People&#8221; &#8211; the North, and &#8220;Our History and Origin&#8221;, Mar ried ind has many children; Address (Home) 6, Idita Street, Surulere, Lagos; (Office) Nigerian Food Com pany Ltd. P.O. Box. 3115, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,219],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10315","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-civil-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10315","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}