{"id":12258,"date":"2017-02-26T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12258"},"modified":"2017-05-22T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:04:18","slug":"olayi-dr-gabriel-atah","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olayi-dr-gabriel-atah\/","title":{"rendered":"OLAYI, Dr. Gabriel Atah"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.sc, Ph.D, university teacher, born October 19, 1945, Ukperinyi, Utugwang, Obudu, Cross River State; married Mary Imelda Ngwu 1971, four daughters; Education: St, Colman&#8217;s School, 1952-59, Mary Knoll College, Okuku, 1960-66, Ahmadu Bello Uni versity,&#8221; Zaria, 1968-71, State University of New York, Stony Brook. USA, 1971-73, Adelphi University.Garden City,New York, USA, 1974-77;Career: Appointed Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1977-87: appointed Associate Professor in Mathemat ics (Computational), Federal University of Technology, Minna, since September .1987; Federal Radio Corporation ofNigeria, 1984- 86; fellow, Chartered Association of Certi fied Accountants, UK, 1960; associate, In stitute of Taxation, UK, 1960; fellow, Insti tute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, 1961; President, Institute of Chartered Ac countants of Nigeria, 1972-73; Secretary, Ni geria Table Tennis Association, 1963-66 be came its Vice- Chairman, 1966-69; Chair man, LagosvState Table Tennis Association, 1966-72; member, Metropolitan Club, La gos; member, Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos; Vice-Chairman, The Island Club, Lagos, 1979-80 and Chairman, 1983-86; member, American Methematical Society; member, Mathematical Association of America, 1972-86; fellow, African-American Institute since 1972; Political Party: member, banned National Party of Nigeria, NPN; Hobbies: reading, current affairs; Official Address: Department of Mathematics, Federal Univer sityofTechnology, Minna, Niger State; Tele phone: 066-222-397; Home: Flat 2, O&#8217;Block of Flats, Bosso Road, Minna, Niger State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12258","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12258","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}