{"id":10475,"date":"2017-02-14T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10475"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:52:47","slug":"disu-abdul-kurimi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/disu-abdul-kurimi\/","title":{"rendered":"DISU, Abdul Kurimi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BA, MA, journalist, administrator, bom October 10,1912, Lagos; married Rose Onyedinma Asomugha 1958, two sons, two daughters; Education: Gov ernment Moslem School, 1919-21, Moslem Boys HighSchool, 1921 -26, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1927-31, Lincoln University, Pennsyl vania, USA, 1938-40, University ofWiscon sin, Madison, USA, 1940-43, Columbia Uni versityGraduate School of Journalism, New York, USA, 1943-44; Career: Appointed Chairman and General Manager, Eastern Ni geria Information Service, 1955-60; Press Secretary Governor-General of Nigeria, 1960-61; Secretary to the Governor-General, 1961-63; Secretary to the President ofthe Federal Republic ofNigeria, 1963-66; Prin cipal Secretary, State House, 1966; Deputy Director of Information and later, Director of Information, Federal Information Service, 1966-68; Public Relations Officer, National Commission for Rehabilitation, Federal Mili tary Government ofNigeria, 1968-71; Chair man, General Metal Products Limited, Apapa, Lagos, since 1972; Publications: Columbia University Lippincott Gazetteer, 1951-53, coeditor; Columbia University Encyclopaedia, 1951-53, co-editor; Colliers Encyclopaedia, 1962, co-editor; Hobbies: cricket, tennis, table tennis; Official Address: General Metal Products Limited, Apapa-Oshodi Express way, Amuwo-Odofin, PO Box 442, Apapa, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-801540-4; Home: 44, Adeola Hopewell Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-619922. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10475","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10475","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}