{"id":18655,"date":"2017-03-31T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18655"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:40:35","slug":"toro-sani-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/toro-sani-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"TORO, Sani Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>football administrator b:; May 15, 1953; p: Darazo; lga: Toro; so: Bauchi; m: Aishatu; nc: five s, one d; ed: Kaduna Polytechnic; University of Jos; cr: asst sec. Bauchi Emirate Council, 1974-75; Staff Officer\/ Organising sec. State Sports Council, 1978-79; Staff Officer\/Higher Executive Officer Bauchi State House of Assembly, 1979-84; snr. Executive Officer, Bauchi State Football Association, 1985-88; Principal Organising Secretary\/Secretary Bauchi State Football Association, 1981-90; Deputy sec. Nigeria Football Association and Principal Organising sec. NSC, 1990; 1 Executive sec. Professional Football Uague NFA, 1990-92; sec genJceo, NFA, 1993-99; asst sec. gen. NFA; he was instrumental to Nigeria winning Gold at the 1994 African Cup of Nations; Nigeria debut in the 1994 World Cup tournament and 2 appearance in 1998; Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympic Football Games; Gold at the UEFA\/CAF\/Meridian Cup\u201e 1996; Female National Team appearance in the World Cup in China and Sweden; Falcon team qualification for the 1998 USA World Cup; Africa Women Cup of Nations Gold in 1998; comm. FiFA\/CAF\/ WAFU, since 1996; d-dir. Sports Development, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports, 1999; Hon. comm. Sport, Bauchi State, mem. House of Representative currently; Honour\/Awards: Best Sports Administrator, Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, 1992; National Merit Award SWAN, 1993; Gold Merit Award, Nigeria Football Supporters Club, 1998; off: House of Representative, National Assembly, Abuja; tel: 08033834106; res: Nguru Road, Behind Zaranda Hotel, Bauchi; tel: 077-542199.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[547],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18655","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18655","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\/18655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18655"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}