{"id":15087,"date":"2017-03-13T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15087"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:44:25","slug":"maikanti-alhaji-garba","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/maikanti-alhaji-garba\/","title":{"rendered":"MAIKANTI, Alhaji Garba"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, MBA, businessman, born June 21, 1934, Zungeru, Niger State; married Safiya, has fourteen children; Education: Native Authority Jun ior Primary School, Zungeru, 1939-41, Na tive Authority Senior Primary School. Fagge, Kano, 194244, CMS Central School, Onitsha, 1945-49, Dr. Lucas Collegiate Classes, Lagos, 1950-52, Lagos CityCollege, Yaba, 1953-54, Pacific Western University, California, USA, 1971; Career: Appointed Accountants Supervisor, Northern Assurance Company Limited, 1957; Sub-accountant, Barclays (now Union) Bank, Minna, 1961- 63; Sales Representative, Esso (West Africa) Inc. for Katsina, Kano, Sokoto and Zaria provinces, 1963-66; Managing Director and Chairman, Arewa Transport Company Lim ited, 1966-69; Managing DirectorandChair man, Group Commerce International Service, 1970-77; Chairman, Byard-Acobes Nigeria Limited, 1975-79; Managing Director, Frank Brisco Construction Company (Nigeria) Limited, 1976-79; Chairman, Nigeria Hotels Limited Federal Government owned), 1*977- 79; appointed Minister ofState, Federal Min istry of Transport, Lagos, 1979-82; Minister of Information, Lagos, February-September 1983; engaged in private business, since 1983; Hobbies: travelling, reading, music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15087","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15087","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\/15087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15087"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}