{"id":18707,"date":"2017-03-31T04:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18707"},"modified":"2017-05-30T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:52:18","slug":"yough-simon-gboko","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/yough-simon-gboko\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUGH, Simon Gboko"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA, MALD; diplomat; b: August I, 1936; p: Gboko; so: Benue; m: two s, one d; ed: Government College! formerly Provincial Secondary School and Middle School, Katsina- Ala, Benue State; Ecole De Chambre De Commerce, Brussels, Belgium; The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts, USA; cr: Nigerian Foreign Service, 1961; Attached Nigerian High Commission, Accra, Ghana, 1962-63; Vice-Consul, Nigerian Embassy, Conakry, Guinea, 1963-66; Second Sec, Nigerian Embassy and Nigerian Mission to the European Economic Commuficer Ministry of Information, Kano, 1976-78; Producer, Programmes Division, Radio Kano, 1978-79; Deputy asst. Editor, Foreign Desk Triumph Publishing, Kano, 1981; sec, Land Use and Allocation Committee, Kano State, 1982-83; Editor, Sunday Triumph, 1983-87; Editor, New Nigerian Newspapers, Kaduna, 1987-90; Editor, Citizen Magazine, since 1990; representative, Kano State, Women inNigeria, 1982-87; Public Relations Officer, Federation of Muslim Women&#8217;s Association of Nigeria, since 1985; mm. Kano State Amateur Basketball Association, since 1985; National Committee on Women and Development, since 1986; Kano Seminar Bureau, College of Education, Kano, 1986; GoverningCouncil, Federal RoadSafety Corps, 1988. Consultant, Mac Arthur Foundation, 1994; nh. Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic, 1987; award. Award of Excellence, Nigerian Association of Women Journalists, 1992; f. Nigerian Guild of Editors, 1998; pubL Inconsistency in Nigeria Foreign Policy, Towards a Progressive Nigeria, Triumph Publishing Company, Kano, 1983; Women in Politics Women in Nigeria Today, Zed Press, London, 1985; Mass Media in Politics, Politics of the Second Republic, NIPSS, Kuru, 1987; 77ie Political Future of Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello University Press, Zaria, 1988; 77ie Muslim Woman, MSO, 1988. hob. reading, travelling, debates, off. Citizen Magazine, P.M.B. 2334, Kaduna. tel. 062-230165.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2398],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18707","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-diplomat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18707","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\/18707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18707"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}