{"id":17797,"date":"2017-03-27T18:51:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17797"},"modified":"2017-05-05T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:17:25","slug":"nyame-rev-jolly-tavero","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nyame-rev-jolly-tavero\/","title":{"rendered":"NYAME, Rev. Jolly Tavero"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HND, BD; politician, cleric, administrator; DOB: December 25,1955; Place: Zing; LGA: Zing; State of Origin: Taraba; Married: Mrs. Priscilia T. Nyame; Number of Children: three daughters, two sons; EDUCATION: St Thomas Primary School, Zing (now SabonGari Primary School), 1962-67;Government Secondary School, Yola, 1969-73; Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCNN)Bukuru, 1978-80; University of Jos, Plateau State, 1984-86; en Principal, Kakulu Bible Institute, Kakulu Zing, 1982-84; Dir. of Admin ofCouncil of Ministers (UMCN), 1984-91; Elected First Executive Governor.Taraba State, 1991-93; Executive Govemor, Taraba State, 1999-07; Elected Senator Representing Northern Zone on the Platform of DPN, 1998; As a Governor, he constructed 12km Jalingo Carriage Way, Established TarabaTV Corporate, 1993; Taraba State Broadcasting Service(TSBS), Jalingo; was the first Northern Govemor to implement N6,500 minimum wage; constructed the Jalingo Airport; purchased two Dornier Aircraft for the State; has adopted children; given scholarships at various times; donated multimillion naira dialysis machine to UTH; endowed a medical prize of N100,000 for best graduating MBBS Student in the Faculty of Medicine UNIJOS for25years; etc; Award: Award for Peace, National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), 2002; Award for Peace, IOWA Research Institute, 2002; Award for Labour Friendly Policies, Taraba State NLC; Distinguished Leadership, Taraba State NUJ, 2002;2003; National Merit Award, Special Presidential Envoy (Conflict Resolution)&#038; Senate Committee in State&#038; LGAdministration, 2007; Int. Ambassador for Peace, Universal Peace Federation, USA. 2003; Special Merit Award,New Life for AH; Special Life Membership, BSN, 2006; Traditional Title: Danlyan Gashaka, 2000; Garkuwan Ibi, 2001; The Enyi Oma Nnewi, 2002; lege Huror U Tiv, 2003; The Atayashe of Yoruba Community in Taraba State, 2003; 77 Tqfidan Wukari, 20O4; Political Party: People&#8217;s Democratic Movement(PDM), 1990; Foundation mem.,Social Democratic Party (SDP), 1990; Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN); elected Senate brunder the DPN, 1998; Hobbies: reading, political discourse, listening to gospel &#038; classical music; off: Zing, Zing Local Government Area, Taraba State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,319,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17797","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-clergy","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17797","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17797"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}