{"id":11130,"date":"2017-02-20T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11130"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T10:12:13","slug":"hamza-alhaji-dr-garba-nautan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/hamza-alhaji-dr-garba-nautan\/","title":{"rendered":"HAMZA, Alhaji (Dr.) Garba Nautan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>industrialist, philanthropist, born October 25, 1934, Utai, Wudil, Kano State; married 1951, eighteen sons, nine daughters; Education: Arabic- Schools (Evening Classes); Chairman\/Chief Executive, Hamza Holdings Limited (eneampassing 24 companies); Executive Chairman, Organisation of Nigerian Indigenous Business, since 1969; National President, National Unity and Peace Corps, since September 1987; Life Patron, Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON); Trustee, Professional Football Federation of Nigeria; Founder\/Governor, Traditional Sports Promotion Council of Nigeria; founder, Langa Games and Dombai Sports (Traditional Games); member, London Chamber of Commerce; member, The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce; member. Institute of Directors; member, Nigerian In stitute of Management; member, World Leaders Club; Award: recipient: Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON) Award, 1985; awarded National Merit Award bv the Rotaract International of Nigeria, June 1989; Honorary Degrees: Honorary Doctor of Humanities. University of California, Los Angeles. USA, 1977; Honorary Doctor of I aws (Hon. LLM)). Bayero University, Kano, Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. D. Litt), University of Lagos. 1988; Chieftaincy title: conferred with &#8220;A pasc&#8221; (Commandant) of Zumratul-Ujaj of Nigeria, October I, 1988; Hobbies: soccer, langa, sports; Official ad dress: Hamza Holdings Limited, 19 Kofo Abayomi Avenue, PO Box 117, Apapa, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 871090, OR 21 Bello Road, PO Box 10186. Kano, Kano State; Telephone: (065) 629012, 629762; Home: 21 Kofo Abavomi Avenue, Apapa, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 873562. 873840. 876860.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,307,2409],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11130","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-industrialist","category-philanthropist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11130","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\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}