{"id":18236,"date":"2017-03-29T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18236"},"modified":"2017-05-31T03:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T02:03:37","slug":"yakubu-dr-nuru-a","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/yakubu-dr-nuru-a\/","title":{"rendered":"YAKUBU, Dr. Nuru A."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OON, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D; engineer, administrator, b: January 17, 1958; p: Nguru; so: Yobo; ed:Community Islamiya School; pioneer pupil, Nguru Hausari Primary, 1964; Government Secondary School, Maiduguri, 1970-75; School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1976; Camborne School of Mines, GreatBritain, 1979; Imperial College of Science andTechnology, Royal School of Mines, London, 1981; cr: National Youth Service Corps, Department of Mining Engineering, Kaduna Polytechnic, 1979- 80; Academic Staff, Federal University of Technology, Bauchi, 1982; first substantive dir.. College of Engineering, Kaduna College, 1990- 92; Deputy Rector, Administration, 1992-96; Rector, 1996; Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education, Kaduna, since 2000; mm: National Implementation Committee on the Review of Higher Education in Nigeria; Yabani Committee on the Future of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education in Nigeria; New National Policy onTechnical and Vocational Education Development in Nigeria; National Directorate of Employment; Nigerian Institute of Sports; Committee of the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnic in Africa; mm: Council, and v-presd. COREN, Nigerian Society of Engineers, first National v-presd; Nigerians Mining andGeosciences Society; Chartered Engineer of the United Kingdom Engineer Council; Institute of Mining andMetallurgy, U.K; f: Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers; hon. f: Institute of Science and Technology, 1997; Nigerian Association of Teachers of Technology, 1999; nh: Officer of the Order of Niger, 2003; fh: Prize of the Society for Chemical Industry for Current Research in Solvent Extraction and Exchange, 1985; hob: sports; off: Office of the Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education, Kaduna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18236","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18236","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\/18236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}