{"id":15013,"date":"2017-03-10T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15013"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:11:30","slug":"sada-dr-yusuf-wakki","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/sada-dr-yusuf-wakki\/","title":{"rendered":"SADA, Dr. Yusuf Wakki"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ph.D, ad ministrator, former diplomat, born September 30, 1927, Katsina, Katsina State; married Zeinab Mohammed 1946, Jemilat Abdullahi Atta, eight sons, four daughters; Education: CES, Katsina, 1933-37, Middle School, Katsina, 1937-42,School of Radiography, Lagos, 1947-49, University of Bristol, UK, 1954-57, Pakistan Administrative Staff College, 1964, Somerset University, 1984-86; worked at Kat sina Native Authority, 1942-57; Northern Region of Nigeria, 1957; University College Hospital, Ibadan, 1957-60; Assistant Secretary and later Principal Assistant Secretary, 1960-64; First Secretary, Counsellor, Chief of Protocol, Ministry of External Affairs, 1964-70; appointed Nigerian Ambassador to Togo, Republic of Benin, Cameroon, Sudan, Egypt, West Germany, Brazil and South Korea, 1970-88; Chairman, National Produc tivity Council, Federal Ministry of Employ ment, Labour and Productivity, since April 1988; Traditional Title: Dan Darman Katsina; National Honour: Conferred with Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1983; Foreign Honours: Awarded Officer of the Orde&#8221;r of the Republic of Togo, 1969; Of ficer of the Order of the Republic of Benin, 1969; Officer of the Republic of Guinea; Of ficer of the Order of the Republic of Cameroon and later Commander, Grand Of ficer and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Cameroun, 1970-75; also awarded National Honours by the Republic of Sudan, Egypt, West Germany, Brazil and South Korea; Hobbies: reading, photography, badminton; Address: 4 Club Road, GRA, PO Box 241, Katsina, Katsina State; Telephone: (065) 30344, 30257, 30488. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15013","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15013","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\/15013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15013"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}