{"id":10954,"date":"2017-02-18T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10954"},"modified":"2017-04-21T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:35:04","slug":"gimba-abubakar","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gimba-abubakar\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMBA, Abubakar"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, B.Sc, MA, economist, author, born March 10, 1952, Nasarawa, Lapai LGA, Niger State; married, has chil dren; Education: Gulu Primary School, 1959-62, Lapai Senior Primary School, 1963-64, Government College, Keffi, 1965- 69, School of Basic Studies, ABU, Zaria, 1970-71, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971-74, University of Cincinmati, USA, 1977; Career: Appointed Permanent Secre tary, Ministry ofFinance, Niger State, 1984- 87; Executive Director, Union Bank ofNi geria Pic, 1988-93; Executive Director, Union Bank for Africa Pic, 1993-96; Chair man, University Disciplinary Committee, ABU, Zaria, 1996-98; member, Programmes Implementation Monitoring Committee (PIMCO), for General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime, 1998-99; Vice-President, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), 1992-94; National President, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), 1997-date; Publi cations: Trial ofSacrifice, Delta Publica tions, Enugu, 1985; Witness to Tears, Delta Publications, Enugu. 1987; Innocent Victims, Delta Publications, Enugu, 1988; Sunsetjot a Mandarin, West African Book Publishers. Enugu, \\992; Sacred Apph&#8217;s, Evans, 1995; Footprints* Malthouse Press, Enugu, 1998; Hobbies: writing, reading, watch cricket; Home; Minna, Niger State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10954","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10954","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\/10954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}