{"id":10323,"date":"2017-02-12T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10323"},"modified":"2017-04-21T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:23:02","slug":"gana-professor-jerry","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gana-professor-jerry\/","title":{"rendered":"GANA, Professor Jerry"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, Ph.D, geog rapher, university teacher, politician, born November 30, 1945, Busu, Near Doko, Lavun, Niger State; married Lucy 1974, two sons, two daughters; Education:.Govern ment College, Bida, 1960-64, Okene Second ary School, 1965-66, Ahmadu Bello Univer sity,Zaria, 1968-70, University ofAberdeen, Scotland, 1974; Career: Appointed Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1973-79; appointed Reader in Geography, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1980-88; Consult ing Director for Social Mobilisation at the Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infra structure, 1986-87; appointed Chairman, Directorate for Social Mobilisation (MAMSER), Abuja, since 1987: appointed, Professor ofGeography and Rural Develop ment, since January 1989; appointed Minis ter of Information and Culture, 1993-95; Minister for Integration and Cooperation in Africa, 1999-2000; Minister ofInformation, 2000-date; Political Parties: member,defunct Nigerian Peoples Party, member, defunct Social Democratic Party, member, Peoples Democratic Party, 1998- date; International Honour: Honoured with Africa International Award of Merit for Lead ership in Enterprises in Africa, 1999; Pub lications: Over 42 articles in national and international journals; Official Address: Of fice ofthe Honourable Minister of Informa tion, 2nd &#038;3rd Floor, Radio House, PMB 247, Garki, Abuja; Home: Maitama Ministerial Quarters, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10323","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10323","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\/10323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}