{"id":17258,"date":"2017-03-23T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17258"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:59:19","slug":"muhammadu-alhaji-mahmudu-turi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/muhammadu-alhaji-mahmudu-turi\/","title":{"rendered":"MUHAMMADU, Alhaji Mahmudu Turi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, administrator, born January 1940, Bida, Niger State; married Hajiya Fati Turi 1961, four sons, four daughters; Education: North Primary Schools, 1947-53, Barewa College, Zaria, 1954-59, Teachers&#8217;Training College, Zaria, 1960-61, Advanced Teachers&#8217; Train ing College, ZariaJ 1962-65, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1966-69, Waterloo Lutheran University, Ontario, Canada, 1970- 71; Career: Appointed Assistant Education Officer, Northern Nigeria Civil Service, 1965-66; Executive Assistant, New Nigerian Newspapers Limited, 1969, Marketing Man ager, New Nigerian Newspapers, 1972; Man aging Editor, New Nigerian, Newspapers, Lagos Office, 1972-73, Editor, New Nigerian Newspapers, 1974-76; Managing Di rector, 1976-80; Director, New Nigerian Newspapers, PZ Limited, 1980-85, General Manager (North) UTC, 1985-93; Director, Vitafoam Nigeria Pic; Chairman, Skyline Integrated Limited, since 1994; Director, PZ (Nigeria) Limited, 1980-85; Chairman, Dorman Long &#038; Amalgamated Industries, 1980-88; Director, Trappco Limited, 1981- 91; Chairman, Implementation sub-commit tee for the Commercialisation of the News Agency ofNigeria (NAN), 1989-90; Chair man, Daily Times ofNigeria , 1991; Direc tor, UTL (Nigeria) Pic, 1986-93; Chairman, Citizen Communication Limited, 1989-95; Chairman, Commercial &#038; Security Printers Limited, 1990; Chairman, Scan Africa (Ni geria) Limited, 1990-93; Director, NTV, Sokoto, 1976-77; Director, National Man power Board, 1976-83; Member, Council of the Nigeria Institute International Affairs, 1978-83; Member, Kaduna State Land Use &#038; Allocation Committee, 1978-79; Director, NNDC Properties, 1979-80; Director, Gaskiya Corporation, 1978-83; Member, National Universities Commission, 1986-92; Member, Nigerian Historical Society; Mem ber, Nigerian Economic Society; President, Nigerian Economic Society, 1980; Fellow, Nigerian Economic Society, 1999; Awards\/ Honour: Recipient, Merit Award by Nige ria Guild of Editors; Publication: 1979 Con stitution: Frameworkfor Democracy, Fourt Dimension, 1982; Hobbies: reading, walk ing; Address: 18, Ishaku Road, Malali G.R.A, Kaduna, P.O. Box 4242, Kaduna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,219,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17258","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-civil-service","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17258","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}