{"id":15643,"date":"2017-03-14T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15643"},"modified":"2017-05-26T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:20:05","slug":"sani-senator-ahmad-rufai","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/sani-senator-ahmad-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"SANI, Senator Ahmad Rufa&#8217;i"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> B.Sc,M.Sc, FCNA, MNES, civil servant, politician, administrator, b: July 22, I960; p: Anka; ht: Bakura; Iga: Bakura; so: Zamfara; m: Married; ed: Anka Town Primary School, Anka, I%6-72; Government Secondary School, Anka; 1972-77; State Collegeof Artsand Science, Sokoto, 1977-78; Bayero University, Kano, 1978-82; Bayero Univereity, Kano, 1984-86; cr: Planning Officer 11, Ministry of Finance, Sokoto, 1983-88; Chief ResearchOfficer, National Directorateof Employment, Lagos, 1988-90; Staff, Central Bank ofNigeria (Foreign Operations), Ugos, 1990-93; dir: Budget Finance Incorporated, Ministry of Finance, Sokoto, 1994-95; Director, Finance Incorporated, Ministry of Finance, Sokoto, 1995-96; Director General, Department of Und, Survey and Housing, Gusau, 1996-97; Perm Sec Ministry ofUnd Survey and Housing, Gusau, 1997-98; Executive Governor of Zamfara State, 19992003; 2003-07; Senator, Federal RepublicofNigeria, since, 2007; Senate Minority Whip; mm: Several Ad-hoc and Standing Committees in both Federal and State Government; National Economics Society; Fellow, Certified National Accountant (FCNA), bythe Associationof National Accountantsof Nigeria; ah: Honorary Doctor ofUtters, the Hedge Univereity, Cotonou, Benin Republic; Best Govemor for Security and Crime Fight, Security Watch, 2006; Inter Religious Peace Award, The Ecumenical Apostolic Church Diocese; Good Governance and Hospitality award for Achievements in Housing and Environmental Sanitation, Poverty Alleviation and Agriculture, NUJ, National Headquarters; Good Governance and Hospitality award by Youth Corp Members, Zamfara State, 2005 Batch; Garkuwan Malammai byNUT, National Headquarters; Sarkin Noman Arewa bytheNational Chambers ofCommerce; h: Honorary Citizenship ofthe Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Honorary Citizenship ofthe Stateof Nebraska, USA;tt: Yariman Bakura; Sardaunan Zamfara; Dan MadaminGusau; Sarkin Yakin Daular Usmaniya; hob: reading, table-tennis; off:The Senate, National Assembly Complex, Three Arms Zone, P.M.B 141, Abuja; res: 1 Shattima Road, GRA, Gasau; 40, Nelson Mandela Street,Asokoro,Abuja <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,219,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15643","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-civil-service","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15643","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\/15643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15643"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}