{"id":18845,"date":"2017-03-31T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18845"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:09:00","slug":"takaya-bala","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/takaya-bala\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKAYA. Bala"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, M.Sc, administrator and university teacher, born November 5, 1949, Mabuguva, Mubi, Gongola State; married Mariama Laraba Agaya 1971, one son, four daughters; Education: RMC Primary School, Mubi, 1960-62, CBM Primary School, Mubi, 1963-64, Baptist High School, Jos, 1965-69, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, School of Basic Studies, 1970-74, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1977-78; External Affairs Officer, Branch &#8216;A&#8217;, 1975-76; Lecturer, Administrative Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1976-83; Special Ad viser\/Secretary, Gongola State Government, 1979-81; Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Jos, 1983-87; member, Political Bureau, 1986-87; Director, Centre for Develop ment Studies, University of Jos, since 1987; Publications: Kaduna Mafia (ed.) (University of Jos Press, 1987); Hobby: Music; Official Ad dress: Centre for Development Studies, Univer sity of Jos; Telephone: (073) 55930 extension 93; Home: 15 Permanent Site, University of Jos Staff Quarters, Jos, Plateau State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18845","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18845","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\/18845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18845"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}