{"id":18571,"date":"2017-03-30T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18571"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:38:26","slug":"tofa-alhaji-bashir-othman","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/tofa-alhaji-bashir-othman\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFA, Alhaji Bashir Othman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc; businessman, industrialist, politician; b: August 5, 1955; p: Kano; ht: Kano; Iga: Gwale; so: Kano; married, nc: Four s, three d; ed: Shuachi Primary School; Cily Senior Primary School, 1956-61; Provincial Secondary School (now Rumfa College), 1962-66; Government College, Kano, Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna Polytechnic, City of London College, cr: Royal Exchange Insurance, 1967-68; Nigerian Embassy, Khartoum, Sudan; Manager, Abba Othman and sons Limited, Kano; ch. defunct Century Merchant Bank, Lagos, General Metal Products. International Petrol- Energy Limited, Abba Othman Investments Limited; elected mem. Constituent Assembly, 1995; Red Cross Society ofNigeria, Chamber of Commerce; sc: Kano Club, Lebanon Club; pp.- National financial secretary, defunct National Party of Nigeria, 1979; presidential candidate, defunct National Republican Convention, 1993. hob: travelling, reading; off: No 22, Kangan Rd., GRA Nassarawa, Kano Stale; tel: 064-635532; res: Kano City, Kano State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,307,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18571","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-industrialist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18571","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\/18571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}