{"id":11963,"date":"2017-02-23T17:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11963"},"modified":"2017-04-20T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:35:38","slug":"ibrahim-sir-kashim","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ibrahim-sir-kashim\/","title":{"rendered":"IBRAHIM, (Sir) Kashim"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>teacher, first indigenous Governor of North ern Nigeria, Chancellor University of Lagos; Born in Maiduguri, Borno State 1910. Education: Katshina Training College; spent the early part of his life as a teacher, appointed a visiting teacher, 1933; founder mem ber of the banned Northern People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) 1951 elected mem ber of the Northern House of Assem bly and the House of Representa tives, serving as a minister both at the Federal and Regional levels \u2014 he was the North Regional Minister of Social Development and Survey; later returned to work for the Bornu Native Authority; served in the Nigerian Senate; was chairman of the former Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology and later chairman of the Provisional Council of Ahmadu Bello University; appointed Governor Northern Nigeria, 1962, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II the same year; when the Army took over power in January 1966 he became Adviser to the Military Governor Northern Region; appointed Chancellor University of Lagos. Married with children; Address: Maiduguri, Borno State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,167],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11963","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11963","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}