{"id":10345,"date":"2017-02-13T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10345"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:57:02","slug":"oke-odde-umaru","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oke-odde-umaru\/","title":{"rendered":"OKE-ODDE, Umaru"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>traditional ruler educationist, Emir of Lafiagi; Born at a Fulani settlement near Qke-Odde 1924, son of late Malam Muham madu, the Sha&#8217;aban Lafiagi and later senior District Head of Oke-Odde 1915-41; Education: Oke-Odde Elementary School, 1932-37. Ilorin Middle School 1937-40, Niger Middle School, Bida 1940-41, Kaduna College 194244; Zaria Middle School- Grade II Teachers Certificate 1945- 46; posted to Teacher Training College, Toro March 1946, became assistant senior teacher 1948-53 and senior teacher March 1953, attended a year&#8217;s. training course at the Institute of Education, University of London 1955-56 where he obtained Teacher&#8217;s Professional Certificate in Education; became senior teacher at Mubi Teacher Training College and later, superintendent of education; posted to the Clerical Training School, Potiskum as the principal officer-in-charge; appointed Emir of Lafiagi Oct. 11, 1961 and member of the former Northern House of Chiefs 1961; attended a Judicial course for Emirs and Chiefs conducted in Kaduna by the School of Administration Zaria; Served as a member of the Commission that probed the Pankshin Chieftaincy Affairs in 1964; Address: Emir&#8217;s Palace, Lafiagi JJ Kwara State; Hobby: keen educationist, has caused several schools to be built through communal effort, also interested in farming and horsemanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10345","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10345","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}