{"id":10448,"date":"2017-02-13T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10448"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T12:00:12","slug":"okene-abdurrahman","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okene-abdurrahman\/","title":{"rendered":"OKENE, Abdurrahman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>educationist, administrator, born August 1916, Okene, Kwara State; married in 1933, eight sons, ten daughters; Education: Okene Elementary School, 1924-26, Bida Provincial School, 1926-30, Katsina High College, 1930-35, Institute of Education, University of London, UK; Teacher Grade II, 1936-48&#8242;; Inspector of Primary Schools, 1952-54; Education Officer, 1954-57; Principal, Teachers&#8217; Training College, 1958-59, Senior Assistant Secretary, 1959-60; Secretary, Cabinet Office, Lagos, 1960-61; Resident in-charge of Zaria Province, 1961-63; Provincial Secretary, Sokoto Province, 1963-64; Provincial Secretary, Sardauna Province. January-December 1964; Provincial Secretary, Bauchi Province, 1965-66; Secretary to the Military Governor, North Eastern State, 1967; Secretary to the Military Governor. Kwara State, 1968-71; retired from Public Service, 1971; appointed Director, Bank of the North; Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1972-75; Chairman, Police Service Com mission. 1972-75: Chairman and ProChancellor. University of Ibadan, 1975-80; Chairman, National Population Commission, 1981-83; Chairman, Union Bank of Nigeria Limited, since 1986; National Honours: Conferred with Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR); Foreign Honours: conferred with Her Majesty Royal Honours of Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE). 1959; Honorary Degree: Conferred with honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LLD), Kensington University Glendale, California, USA. 1989; Hobbies: football, walking; Official Address: Union Bank of Nigeria Limited, 40 Marina, Lagos; Telephone (01) 663307; Home: 4B Lafia Road, Kaduna, Kaduna State; Telephone: (062) 213286. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10448","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10448","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\/10448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}