{"id":11546,"date":"2017-02-21T19:32:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11546"},"modified":"2017-04-21T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T16:10:23","slug":"gusau-malam-yafiaya","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gusau-malam-yafiaya\/","title":{"rendered":"GUSAU, Malam Yafiaya"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFR, CFR; educationist, administrator, politician, statesman; b: 1916, ht: Gusau, so: Zamfara; ed: Gusau Elementary School, 1927-29; Sokoto Middle School, 1929-31, Katsina Higher College, (now Barewa College), 1931-36; Institute of Education, London University, 1945-46; Buffalo University, USA, 1954. cr: Teacher. Kano Middle School, 1936-41; Teacher, Bauchi Middle School, 1941-45; Teacher, Kaduna College (now Barewa College). 1947-48; Teacher, Government College (Barewa College), Zaria, 1948-50; Educational asst\/Councillor for Education, Sokoto Native Authority, 1951-55; Education Officer, Northern Nigeria Government, 1955; mm: House of Representatives, 1952-55, House of Assembly, 1952- 54, Executive Committee, Education Development Fund, Sokoto Province, 1955; Permanent mem: Federal Public Service Commission (on secondment), 1955-59; sec, Executive Council. Kaduna, 1959; ps: Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1960; Ministry of Justice, Kaduna, 1961; Provincial Secretary, Zaria, 1963; Ministry of Lands and Survey, Kaduna, 1966; comm. for Federal Ministry of Economic Develpment and Reconstruction Union; min. Agric &#038; Natural Resources, 1967-70; retired from the Civil Service, 1967; mm. Ahmadu Bello University Council, Zaria. 1962-76; mm. North Western State Administrative Reforms Committee, 1970; ch. Northern States Marketing Board, 1970-77; Kaduna Textiles Limited, 1970-79; dir. Nigerian Tobacco Company Limited, 1970-84; ch. Nigerian Civil Aviation Training Center, Zaria, 1971-174; mm: Public Service Commission, Sokoto State, 1971-79; ch. National Electric Power Authority, 1977-79; mm. Constituent Assembly, 1977-78; dir.. Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, 1978-85; University of Sokoto Council, 1977- 83; Pro-Chancellor, University of Sokoto, 1984-85; Pro-Chancellor, Bayero University, Kano, 1986; Council, Bayero University. Kano, 1986-92; ch. Land Use and Allocation Committee, Sokoto State, 1979; Land Use and Allocation Committee, Kaduna State, 1984-85, Committee onCustoms and Smuggling, 1984; presd. Barewa Old Boys Association, 1985; ch. AH Nigeria Conference on Foreign Policy, 1986; Arewa House Organising Committee. 1991; ch. Arewa House Board of Trustees, 1991; Sokoto State Development Appeal Fund Board of Trustees, 1991; mm. Board of Trustees, Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, 1995; presd. Movement for the Creation of Zamfara State; ch. Committee on the Establishment of Emirate Council, Zamfara State, 1996; mm: Zamfara State Council of Chiefs, 1997; f. Kaduna Polytechnic, 1997; mem.. Jam&#8217;at Nasril Islam Executive Committee, since 1970; pp: Member\/general secretary, defunct Northern Peoples Congress. 1948-50; tt: Shatima of Sokoto. nh: Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic. 1965; Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic. 2003; fh: Officer of the Order of the British Empire. OBE. 1963: hd: Honorary Doctor ofLaws, Ahmadu Bello University. Zaria. V970; Honorary Doctor of Letters. University of Lagos. 1986; Honorary Doctor of Laws, Universiiy of Ibadan; Honorary Doctor of Laws, Bayero University, Kano; hob: reading, walking, gardening. off: Zamfara Stale Emirate Council, Gusau. res: 6. Dawaki Road. GRA. Kaduna, Kaduna Slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11546","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11546","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\/11546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}