{"id":18659,"date":"2017-03-31T02:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18659"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:48:17","slug":"yaradua-mallam-abubakar-sadiq","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/yaradua-mallam-abubakar-sadiq\/","title":{"rendered":"YAR&#8217;ADUA, Mallam Abubakar Sadiq"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MBA, M.Sc, broadcaster, administra tor, politician; born in 1960, married; has children. Education: Islamic and Primary School, 1966; Daura Teachers College, Daura, 1973-77; Bayero University, Kano, 1980-81; University ofLagos, 1994. Career: Appointed Group Public Relations Officer, Fadama Complex Limited, Sokoto; Reporter\/ Dodan Barracks Correspondent\/News Edi tor, Today Newspaper, Kaduna; Roving Stringer\/Correspondent, West African Subregion for the Network Africa, Focus of Africa and Hausa Sections of the African Service, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989; covered the 1989 World Youths Soc cer Championship in Saudi Arabia; covered the 1990 World Cup in Italy; covered the Liberian Civil War, 1990; ChiefPress Sec retary to the Governor ofKatsina State, 1990- 93; Assistant Chief Commercial Officer, National Maritime Authority; Port Services Controller; Head, Eastern Zone; Head, Moni toring Unit, National Maritime Authority, 1993-98 member, Institute of Shipping and Freight Management ofNigeria; Chairman, Board of Directors, Katsina State Broadcast ing Corporation, 1994-97; elected member, National Assembly, 1999; Youth Leader, defunct Peoples Redemption Party, 1979-83; member, Media Committee, unregistered Peoples Front ofNigeria;. Political Parties: Member defunct Peoples Redemption Party, 1979-83; member, unregistered Peoples Front ofNigeria; member, defunct Social Democratic Party, 1991-93; member, Peoples Democratic Party. Publication: The Jungle Expert: ABiography of Col. John Yahaya Madaki. Official Address: National Assem bly Complex, Three Arms Zone, Wuse, Abuja. Home: Legislatures Quarters, Apo Village, Abuja Or: Yar&#8217;Adua Village, Katsina State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18659","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18659","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\/18659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18659"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}