{"id":16393,"date":"2017-03-18T01:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16393"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:59:27","slug":"zwingina-senator-dr-jonathan-silas","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/zwingina-senator-dr-jonathan-silas\/","title":{"rendered":"ZWINGINA, Sen. (Dr.) Jonathan Silas"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>political scientist, journalist, administrator: b: August 1. 1954. ht: Falu. Guyuk.so: Adamawa; m: Laraba Daniel. 1977: nc: three s, one d: ed: Government Secondary School, Bauchi, 1974; King&#8217;s College, Lagos, July 1974; University of Ibadan, 1974-78, 1980-81; United Nations Office, Geneva, July 1981; Flinders University of South Australia, 1983-87; International Correspondence School, Sydney, Australia, 1985-87. cr: Producer, Current Affairs Programme, Gongola Broadcasting Corporation, Yola, 1979; Lecturer, College of Preliminary Studies, Yola, 1979-83; Editor\/Publisher, Progressive Magazine, Gongola State, 1980-83; Part-time Lecturer, Politics, Flinders University of South Australia, 1980-83; 1985-87; elected Senator, since 1999; dir. Directorate for Social Mobilisation, Gongola State, 1987; Campaign Co-ordinator, Hope &#8217;93, Chief M.K.O. Abiola&#8217;s Presidential Campaign Organisation; first presd. National Union of Gongola State Students,1977; presd. Senior Staff Association, College of Preliminary Studies, Yola, 1981-83; ch. Progressive Movement, Gongola State; ch. Senate Committee on Information, 1999; mm: Kuta Panel on Contract Awards, Gongola State Interim University Council, 1981; vpresd. Africa Students Union of South Australia, 1984-86; presd. Flinders Association of Graduate Students, 1985-87; mm: Flinders University Council, Australia, 1985-86; mem. Board of Dir&#8217;s Gongola Press Ltd; dir. Gongola Broadcasting Corporation, Gongola Television Corporation Agency for Mass Literacy; sc: United Nations Club 22. pp: Social Democratic Party; Senator-elect, Peoples Democratic Party; hob: reading, debate, squash, off: Senate Chambers, National Assembly, Three Arms Zone, Abuja. res: Falu, Guyuk, Adamawa State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16393","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16393","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20652,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16393\/revisions\/20652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16393"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}