{"id":14939,"date":"2017-03-10T05:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14939"},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T12:52:52","slug":"mafeni-bernard-oghenekniftu-william","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mafeni-bernard-oghenekniftu-william\/","title":{"rendered":"MAFENI, Bernard Oghenekniftu-William"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>educationist, former Federal Commissioner for Agriculture, Born in Kano, November 4, 1932; Educa tion; St Thomas&#8217; School Kano, 1938- 45; St Theresa&#8217;s School Minna, J947- 47; College of Mary Immaculate 1951- 62; Nigerlari College of Technology, Zaria, 1854-57; University of ibadan, 1958-61; University of Edinburgh, 1963-66 &#8211; post graduate diploma In Phonetics and Linguistics; became lecturer University of Ibadan, 1966 and has been on leave of absence since December 1971 when appoin ted Midwest Commissioner for Eco nomic Development and Reconstruc tion, Dec. 1971 &#8211; August 1972; appointed the State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resour ces, August 1972 &#8211; February 1976; became chairman and general mana ger Bendel Farms Management Board December 1, 1974; following the bloodless coup of July 29,1976, was v appointed Federal Commissioner for Agriculture, August 6,1976; member West African Linguistics Society since 1961, also member Interna tional Phoneticians; Married and has a son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14939","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14939","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14939"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}