{"id":10585,"date":"2017-02-15T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10585"},"modified":"2017-04-21T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T10:20:21","slug":"garuba-alhaji-abdul-aziz","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/garuba-alhaji-abdul-aziz\/","title":{"rendered":"GARUBA, Alhaji Abdul Aziz"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A., LL.B., BL, ACPA, lawyer, diplomat, public admin istrator, politician; born 1938; married, has sevenchildren; Education: HusseyCollege, Warri, Delta State, 1955; Emergency Science School (now Federal School of Science) La gos, 1958-84; University ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1961-66; University of Lagos, 1984; Nige rian Law School, Lagos, 1985; Career: Ap pointed Teacher, Bank Clerk; Higher Infor mation Officer, Federal Ministry ofInforma tion, Lagos, 1965; Vice-Consult, Nigerian Consulate, New York, 1966-68; Information\/ Cultural Attache, Nigerian Embassies, West ern Europe, United Nations Office, Geneva, 1963-71; Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Of fice, 1986; Director-General, Ministry ofDe fence, 1986-90; Director-General, Ministry of Internal Affairs; Director-General, Min istry ofCommerce and Tourism; retired from service, 1997; Nigeria&#8217;s High Commissioner to Canada, 1999; Gubernatorial Candidate, defunct United Nigeria Congress Party, Edo State, 1997; Political Party: member, de funct United Nigeria Congress Party; La gos Address: 2, Magbon Close, lkoyi, La gos; Telephone: 01-269-4594, 269-1201; Home: 2, Giwa-Aminu Lane, Off Capiona Avenue, GRA, Benin City, Edo State. Tele phone: 01-257747, 255911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10585","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10585","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\/10585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10585"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}