{"id":12744,"date":"2017-02-28T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12744"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:55:10","slug":"kingibe-baba-gana","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kingibe-baba-gana\/","title":{"rendered":"KINGIBE, Baba Gana"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, diplomat ad-ministrator, b; June 25, 1945; ht: Maiduguri; so: Borno; m: Kolo Kyari; has children; ed: University of Sussex, England, 1968; British Broadcasting Corpora-tion Television Training School, London, cr: Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1969-70; Head, Current Affairs and Features Department, Northern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation ofNigeria), 1970-72; Exter-nal Affairs Officer, Ministry of External Af-fairs, Ugos, 1972-75; snr. Counsellor, Nigerian High Commission, London, 1975-76; Principal Political Secretary, Supreme Military Headquarters, Ugos; Principal Political Secretary, Executive Office ofthe President, 1976-81; Nigerian. Ambassador to Greece with concurrent Accreditation to Cyprus, 1981-84; Nigerian Ambassador to Pakistan, 1984-87; Secretary, Constituent Assembly, Abuja, 1988-89; v-p. candidate,-to MKO Abiola in the annulled June 12, 1993,;presidential election; min. External Affairs, 1994-96; Internal Affairs, 1996-98, Power and Steel, 1998; United Nations Special Envoy to D&#8217;afur,* Sudan, 2006; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SOF), 2007-08; fd: Officer ofthe Order of Valour, Republic of Cameroon; pp: ch. defunct Social Democratic Party, 1992-93; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); hob: polo, squash, tennis; add: Maiduguri, Borno. State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,2398],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12744","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-diplomat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12744","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12744"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}