{"id":16007,"date":"2017-03-16T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16007"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:53:04","slug":"metteden-amb-mohammed-lameen","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/metteden-amb-mohammed-lameen\/","title":{"rendered":"METTEDEN, Amb. Mohammed Lameen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B, B.L; ; diplomatadministrator, b:October 29,1937;p:Kano; m: HudaAbdullahi, 1960; nc: three s,oned;ed:Dala Primary School, Kano City, 1943-44; Local Authority Elementary School,Okene,Kwara State(now KogiState), 1944-50; Kabba Province Middle School, Okene, Kwara State (now Kogi State), 1951; GovernmentCollege, Keffi,BenueProvince(now Nasarawa State),1952-57; King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1958-59; Gray&#8217;s Inn, London, 1960-64; Holbom CollegeofLaw,London, 1961-62; Council of Legal Education Schoolof Law, Lagos, 1964; School ofInternational Affairs,Columbia University, New York, 1966-67; cr: served in the MinistryofExternalAffairs, 1965-66;1965- 71;SecondSec, EmbassyofNigeria, Monrovia,Liberia 1967-68; Second Sec., Embassy of Nigeria The Hague, Netherlands, 1968-70; First Sec, Embassy ofNigeria,Rome,1971; promotedExternal AffairsOfficerGrade VII,November, 1971; served atHeadquarters, Ministry of External Affairsin Protocol&#038;Africa Depts., 1971-73;Asst. Executive Sec.,Admin.&#038; Finance, OAU, Liberation Committee, Dar-Es-Salam, 1973-81; Admin. Officer, Counselor, Senior Counselor, MinisterCounselor, Minister, 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976;&#8217;1977;Ambassack)rtoMozambiquewimConcurrentAccreditati to Madagascar, Mauritius andSwaziland, 1981 -84;dir., Perm. Secretary&#8217;s Office,Immigration&#038;LegalDept, MEA, Lagos, 1984-87; 1987-88; Asst. dir^gen., Legal&#038;Treaties Dept,European Affairs Dept,MEA,Lagos, 1988- 89;.Foreign ServiceOfficer, MEA, Lagos, 1989; Deputy Dir-General, European Aflairebepartment, MEA, Lagos, 1989-90; High Commissionerto the Republic oreTmbabwe, 1990-99; conferences attended: Asst Executive Sec. inCharge ofAdministrationand Financeinlhe Executive SecretariatoftheOAU, Dares- Salam; organized and attended all thebiannual Ordinary Session ofthe OAUCoordinatingCommittee forthe Liberation ofAfrica;Attended 6* Pan AfricanCongress inDar-es-Salam in1974as participantintheOAU Delegation; attendedthe First Afro-ArabSummit inCairoin 1977asa Nigerian Delegate; attended theUN Anti-apartheid Conference held inLagos in 1977; Attended the First OAU Economic Summitin Lagos in 1980asa Nigeria Official; attended asaNigerian Delegate, theUN General Assemblyin1982;Attended asa member ofthe Nigerian Delegation ofthe Commonwealth Heads of J wemmentSummitheldin Harare in 199l;memberand Leader, respectively, ofNigerianContingent intheOAU MonitoringTeam duringthe 1994 Election inSouth AfricaandMozambique, etc;Board memberandViceChairman, International LawInstitute, Abuja, since 2004; member,Vision 2020 Foreign PolicyGroup 2009aswell asitsSub-Committee onImproving Relationships with our French Speaking Immediate Neighbours; off:c\/oInternational Law Institute,Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16007","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\/16007","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19695,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16007\/revisions\/19695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16007"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}