{"id":10329,"date":"2017-02-12T18:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10329"},"modified":"2017-04-21T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:37:30","slug":"gandonu-professor-ajato","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gandonu-professor-ajato\/","title":{"rendered":"GANDONU, Professor Ajato"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, Ph.D, geographer, born in Lagos; married, has children; Education: University College, Lon don, UK, University of Leicester, UK, 1974; Research Fellowand Consultant, Nigerian In stitute for Social and Economic Research, NISER, Ibadan, 1976-79; fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1979-81; appointed Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, Open Univeristy, Abuja, 1981-83; appointed Commissioner for Education, Lagos State, since 1987; Board member, Lagos State Development and Pro perty Corporation, 1976-79; consultant on state matters, Federal Military Government, 1976-79; member, Federal Capital Territory Location Panel; member, Board of Directors, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Abuja; member, Team of Experts on Investigation of Land Tenure as it affects Agriculture in Nigeria; Consultant on the Metropolitan Lagos Master Plan Projects; Publications: Land Use and Industrialisation in Lagos, 1974; Nigeria Urban Land Supply Allocation Rations and Policy Guidelines, 1976; Policy Issuesfor Industrial Dispersal in Nigeria, 1976; Land use Planning in Nigeria: Problem, Procedure and Prospects, 1978; 250 Nigerian Ethnic Groups: Realities and Assumptions in WorldAnthropology Perspec tives in Ethnicity, 1978; Official Address: Ministry of Education Headquarters, Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10329","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10329","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\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}