{"id":16485,"date":"2017-03-20T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T08:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16485"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T17:25:26","slug":"mohammed-yakubu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mohammed-yakubu\/","title":{"rendered":"MOHAMMED, Yakubu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, Veteran Journalist, Administrator; b: April 4, 1950; ht: Ologba, Dekina, so: Kogi; married, has children, ed: St. Joseph&#8217;s Primary School, Ayangba, 1964; Government Secondary School, Okene, 1965-69; University of Lagos, 1972-75, Glasgow College of Technology, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1978-79. cr: Associate Editor, New Nigerian Newspapers, 1976-80; Managing Edi tor, NewNigerian, January-December, 1980; Deputy Editor, National Concord, 1980-82; Editor, National Concord, 1982-1984; Co-founder\/ Executive Editor, Newswatch Magazine, 1984-86; Managing Editor, Newswatch, 1986-94; Deputy ceo. Newswatch Communications Limited, since 1994; dir. Yadara Nigeria Limited, Lastop Limited; member, Nigerian Union of Journalists; Commonwealth Journalists&#8217; Association; Nigerian Guild of Editors; pro-chancellor\/ch. Governing Council, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 2005-; hob: tennis, dancing, music, movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16485","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16485","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\/16485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23504,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16485\/revisions\/23504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}