{"id":18801,"date":"2017-03-31T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18801"},"modified":"2017-05-31T05:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T04:45:20","slug":"tahir-abba-abubakar","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/tahir-abba-abubakar\/","title":{"rendered":"TAHIR, Abba Abubakar"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Correspondent, Voice of Nigeria, PMB 40003, IKoyi, La gos; (01) 688426, 2690301 (ext. 209). Formerly: Senior Staff Writer, Hotline, 1991-91; Reporter\/Newscaster, NTA Yola, 1983-90. Education: Grade II Teachers&#8217; Cert., Teachers College, Bazza, 1983; Cert. TV Newscastibg &#038; Presentation, Television College, Jos, 1984; B.A. Mass Comm., University of Maiduguri, 1989. Major stories handled: OAU Summit, 1991 (VON); Kaduna Mafia, 1988 (Hotline); Maitatsine crisis, 1984 (NTA Yola). Member: NUJ. Born: June 15, 1963. Spouse: Maryam. Hobbies: Writing, public speaking. Address: Flat 1, Block 4, J Close, 21 Road, Festac, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18801","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18801","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\/18801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18801"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}