{"id":18569,"date":"2017-03-30T20:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18569"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:13:45","slug":"tofa-alhaji-abdu-dawakin","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/tofa-alhaji-abdu-dawakin\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFA, Alhaji Abdu Dawakin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>born 1932 in Kwa in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area; Education: Dawa- &#8211; kin Tofa Elementary School, 1943-47; Kano Middle School, 1947-51; School of Agriculture,Samaru, Zaria, 1952-54 . o and 1961; Federal Soil &#038; Water Con servation Training Centre, Nebraska, USA; Kansas State University, USA, 1975-78; Qualification: Ordinary &#038; c Higher Diplomas in Agriculture, B.S.C. &#038; M.Sc. in Agricultural Education and Extension Services; Career: Agricultu ral Assistant &#8211; Bornu Province, 1954- 60; Officer-in-Charge, Agricultural Training and Information, Kano State Ministry of Agriculture, 1971-74; Member, Board of Governors, Division of Agricultural Colleges, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, 1972-74; Gene ral Secretary, Nigerian Association for Agricultural Education, 1972-74; Mar ried with eight children; First appoin ted Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources for Kano State in 1979 and now the Deputy Governor of Kano State. 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2410,166,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18569","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-agriculture","category-politics","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18569","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\/18569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}