{"id":15062,"date":"2017-03-10T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15062"},"modified":"2017-06-09T06:58:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T05:58:39","slug":"john-chief-stephen-ade","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/john-chief-stephen-ade\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN, Chief Stephen Ade"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, ad ministrator, born October 23, 1924, Mopa, Oyi, Kwara State; married, has children; Edu cation: St Peter&#8217;s Anglican School, Aiyede Ekiti and Baptist Day School, Mopa, 1932- 37, Kaba Provincial Middle School, Okene, 1938-40, Government Teachers&#8217; Training College, Ibadan, 1941-42, Sheffield Univer sity, England, Oxford University, Ohio, USA; Career: Appointed School Teacher, 1944; Pioneered the founding of several Commu nity Primary Schools in the former Kaba Province, Kwara State. 1945-58; Education Officer and later, Lecturer, Technical Insti tute, Kaduna, 1958-60; Secretary to the Ex ecutive, former Northern Nigeria, 1960-63; Secretary to the Agent-General of Northern Nigeria in UK, 1963-64; appointed Perma nent Secretary (now Director-General),Min istry of Economic Planning, Kaduna, 1964- 67; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Lagos, 1967; served as Executive Directorfor Nigeriaon the African Develop ment Bank, Abidjan; former Chairman, NorthernNigeria Development Corporation; former Director, Nigerian Produce Market ing Company; former Director, Nigeria Oil Refinery Company, Port Harcourt; currently Chairman, LeventisMotors Limited, Lagos; Director, Leventis Technical Limited. Lagos; Director, Leventis Stores Limited, Lagos; former member,Governing Councils of Uni versity of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and University of Ibadan; former Chair man, Nigerian Sugar Company Limited; re tired voluntarily from the Public Service, 1972; National Honour: honoured with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1982; Hobby: sports; Official Ad dress: Leventis Motors Limited, Iddo House, Iddo, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-800-220.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15062","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15062","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\/15062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}