{"id":14923,"date":"2017-03-10T04:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14923"},"modified":"2017-06-09T06:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T05:34:30","slug":"jimeta-ibrahim-sulaiman","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/jimeta-ibrahim-sulaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"JIMETA, Ibrahim Sulaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>diplomat, ad ministrator, born April 5, 1936. Yola, Gongola State; married Aishatu Uratu and Hureratu Bange 1960, four sons, two daughters; Educa tion: Elementary School, Jimeta, 1944-48, Mid dle School, Yola, 1949, Barewa College, Zaria, 1950-55, Shoreditch College, Surrey, UK, 1956-59, Institute of Education, University Col lege, London; Education Officer, Okene Secon dary School, 1959-61; Students Placement Of ficer, UK, 1961-62; Students&#8217; Officer (North), UK, 1962-63; Secretary, Scholarship Board, Kaduna, 1963-66; First Secretary (Aids and Agreements), Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, 1966; First Secretary, Education, UK, 1966-67; Head of Chancery, Abidjan, 1967; First Secretary (Africa Department), Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, 1968; Head of Chancery,* Moscow, 1968-71; Head, Interna tional Organisations Division, Ministry of Ex ternal Affairs, Lagos, 1971-72; Minister- Counsellor, UN Mission, New York, USA, 1972-76; appointed Nigerian Ambassador to Niamey and Quagadougou, 1976-77, and to Vienna, UN1DO, IAEA and OPEC Fund, 1977-79; appointed Permanent Secretary (now Director-General), Federal Ministry of Informa tion, Lagos, 1979-83, Supreme Headquarters, 1984-85, General Staff Headquarters, 1985-86, Ministry of Transport and Aviation, 1987, Ministry of Transport, 1988 and Ministry of Aviation, June 1988 \u2014March 1989, Ministry of Information, since March 1989; member, UN Sub-Commission on HumanRights(Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities), 1976-83; Foreign Honours: Commander Ordre Nationale, Niger Republic, Chevalier Dela Or dre Nationale, Burkina Faso; Hobbies: movies, music, gardening; Official Address: Ministry of Information, 15, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; Home:60, Saka Tinubu Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State; Telephone: (01) 612066.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2398],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14923","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-diplomat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14923","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\/14923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14923"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}