{"id":17405,"date":"2017-03-24T03:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T02:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17405"},"modified":"2017-05-24T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T11:58:30","slug":"rafindadi-alhaji-muhammadu-lawal-2","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/rafindadi-alhaji-muhammadu-lawal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RAFINDADI, Alhaji Muhammadu Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, retired diplomat, born February 12, 1936, Katsina, Katsina State; married, has two sons, three daughters; Education: Gafai Elementary School, 1944-48, Katsina Provin cial Secondary School, 1953-54, Clerical Training College, Zaria, Institute of Admin istration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1956-57, High Holborn College, London, 1959-60, African Institute of Higher Stud ies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1965-66, Oxford University, England, UK, 1973; Career: Worked for Northern Regional Government, 1954-60; joined the Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, as a career diplomat, 1961- 83; appointed Director-General,NigerianSe curity Organisation (NSO), January 1984- August 26, 1985; in political detention, Au gust 27, 1985-December 1988; Foreign Honours: awarded National Honour of Merit of Republic of Togo; National Honour of Merit of Republic of Benin; National Honours ofthe Cameroon Republic; National Honour of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Hobby: reading; Address: A. Z. 60 Mubi Close, Sabon Gari, Kaduna; Tele phone: 062-212-933.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2398],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17405","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-diplomat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17405","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\/17405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17405"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}