{"id":16377,"date":"2017-03-17T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16377"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:26:35","slug":"zoru-abba-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/zoru-abba-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"ZORU, Abba Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>broadcaster, diplo mat, born October 28, 1933, Maiduguri, Borno State; married Fatima Nene Ali 1963, four sons, seven daughters: Education: Dikwa Elementary School. 1940-44, Borno MiddleSchool,Maiduguri, 1944-48, Barewa College, Zaria, 1948-51, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology (now Ahmadu Bello University), Zaria, 1954-56; Career: Appointed at the Nigerian Broadcasting Ser vice (now Federal Radio Corporation ofNi geria, FRCN), 1952-57; Head of Program mes Operation, NBC, 1957-61; Mana\u00abin\u00ab Director, Broadcasting Company of North ern Nigeria(nowRadioTelevision), Kaduna, 1962-75; Commissioner for Local Govern ment,defunctNorth-Eastern State, 1975-76; Commissioner of Finance, Borno State, 1976-78; Deputy Chairman, Borno State Ex ecutive Council and Commissioner of Fi nance. 1978-79; retired voluntarily from the Public Service as Administrative Officer Grade 1, September 30, 1979; appointed Nigerian Ambassador to the Federal Repub licof Germany, 1984;member, International Institute of Communications; National Honour: conferred with the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic ofNigeria, 1980; Foreign Honour: awarded Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany, March 1988; Hobbies: golf, walk ing, swimming; Home: Shehu Laminu Way, Bama, Borno StateOR: 2A, SS Kyari Cres cent, Maiduguri, Borno State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2398,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16377","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-diplomat","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16377","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\/16377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16377"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}