{"id":14964,"date":"2017-03-10T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14964"},"modified":"2017-04-24T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:32:55","slug":"mahmoud-ahmad-rufai","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mahmoud-ahmad-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHMOUD, Ahmad Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, diplomat, administrator, banker, born March 6, 1944, Koki, Kano City; married Fatima Abubakar Gummi 1974, two sons, one daughter; Edu cation: Katsina Practising Primary School, 1953-55, Kano Dandago Primary School, 1955-56, Kano City Senior Primary School, 1957-59, Government Secondary School, Kano, 1960-66, Abdullahi Bayero College Campus, Ahmadu Bello University, 1966-70; Career: Appointed Assistant Secretary, Kano State Ministry of Trade, 1970; External- Affairs Officer, Ministry ofExternal Af fairs, 1970-80; Third Secretary, Embassy of Nigeria, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1971-72; Third Secretary and Acting Head ofChan cery, Embassy of Nigeria, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1972-73; Second Secretary and Head of Chancery, Embassy of Nigeria, Rabat, Morocco, 1973-74; First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Nigeria High Commission Trinidad and Tobago, with concurrent ac creditation to Barbados and Guyana and also overlooking St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada, 1974-77; Senior Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Nigerian Permanent Mis sion to The United Nations, New York, USA, 1977-78; member, United Nations Organisation&#8217;s Fifth Committee; member, United Nations Organisation&#8217;s Committee on Conferences; member, UN School Board; member\/delegate to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 1977-78; Manager, Multinational and Customer Ser vice Department, United Bank for Africa, 1980; Senior Manager, UBA, 1984; Assis tant Area Manager, UBA Limited, Kaduna, 1985; Assistant Area Manager, UBA Lim ited, Kano, since 1986; also attended sev eral international conferences while serving as a Diplomat: Organisation of African Unity Defence Commission Meeting, Mogadishu, Somalia, 1972; CAFRAD Economic Meet ing, Trangiers, Morocco, 1974; African Car ibbean and Pacific Group, ACP on Lome Convention on the New International Eco nomic Order George Town, Guyana 1975; International Meeting of ACP Group of Countries on Fixing Price of Sugar, Bridgetown, Barbabos, 1976; member, Chad Peace Talks, Bagauda, Kano, 1979; member, Institute of Bankers, London, since 1980; Hobbies: debates, reading, farming, travel ling, photography, lawn tennis; Official Ad dress: United Bank for Africa Limited, 4R Bank Road, Kano; Telephone: 064-620-317, 624-776; Home: 1 Surveyor&#8217;s Lane, NNDC Sharada Layout, Kano, Kano State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2404,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14964","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-banker","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14964","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\/14964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}