{"id":12985,"date":"2017-03-01T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12985"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:44:41","slug":"olumbe-professor-bassir","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olumbe-professor-bassir\/","title":{"rendered":"OLUMBE, (Prof) Bassir"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutritional biochemist, educationist, professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry, University of Ibadan, Born May 20, 1919 at Louga, Senegal; Education: Prince of Wales School, Freetown, 1933-36; Yaba Higher College, Yaba, 1938-41; King&#8217;s College, Lagos, Liverpool University, England, 1946-49; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University, 1949- 57; London Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, holds the B.Sc, Ph.D and D.Sc degrees, was teacher, King&#8217;s College Lagos; Prince of Wales School, Freetown; Bo School, Sierra Leone, 1937-46; served as Director, Human Breast Milk Research Unit, West Africa Council for Medical Research, 1955, senior clinical biochemist, Beverley Hospital, Yorshire, England, 1952-55; acting vice-chancellor, Uni versity of Ibadan, 1969 and 1970; dean Faculty of Science, 1964- 65 and 1968-70; honorary fellow Nigerian Medical Council; president Nigerian Council for Africa; president Nigerian Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation; member Fabian Society London; executive member International Peace Research Association; member, International Commi ttee of Universities and Quest for Peace; author of &#8220;Universities (1960)&#8221; &#8220;Anthology of West Afri can Verse&#8221; (Ibadan University Press 1957), &#8220;Handbook of Practical Bio chemistry&#8221; (Ibadan University Press, Developing Nations&#8221; (Pergamon Press, 1971); Married; Address (Home), 5, Lander Road, Univer sity of Ibadan, Ibadan; (Office): Chemistry Department, University of Ibadan; Hobby: walking, table-tennis broadcasting, writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12985","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12985","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\/12985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12985"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}