{"id":18860,"date":"2017-03-31T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18860"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:01:39","slug":"theophelus-walter-bako-dallatun-lokoja","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/theophelus-walter-bako-dallatun-lokoja\/","title":{"rendered":"THEOPHELUS, Walter Bako DALLATUN LOKOJA"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHERN PERMANENT SECRETARY ECONOMIC PLANING Theophilus Bako was born on 24*June 1924 in Kwara State ofNigeria. He attended Holy Trinity Primary School, Lokoja, 1931-1938;St. BartholomewsSchool, Zaria, 1933-1938;St. Georges School, Sabon-Gari, Zaria, F.S.LC, 1939;Denis Memorial Grammar School, Onisha, 1942; Senior Cambridge School Certificate with exemptionfrom London Matriculation &#8216;Remarks&#8217; read Classes 1 and 2 inoneyear, i.e. 1942, 1945;London and Leads Universities 1955-1956; Institute of Admin., Zaria (Zaria Administrative Officers Course), 1957-1958; Oxford University, study Local Government Structure inEngland and Walesfor6 months, 1960, Oxford University, U.K (Wedham College) Devonshire Course BforSenior and experienced administrators. Had a special 7 days course with M.I.5 on Espionage atthe end of course, 1961-1963; University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, U.SAJ..D Development Projeas, Management and Evaluation, Ford Foundation Scholarship; 1967; Economic Institute, Boulder Colorado, Pre-masters Degyee course in Economics and Government, 1968; Harvard University, John Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge Massachusetts, Masters Degyee course in Economics and Government (M.PA. Harvard). TheophilusBako was a3> Class Clerk, Mines Department,Jos, 1946;promotedfrom 3rd Class Clerk to f Class Clerk, 1950; aaed as Assistant Chief Clerk Accounts at Mines Development Headquarters, Jos, 1953-1954; transferred onpromotion to Ibadan University College asAssistant to the Direaor of ExtraMuralStudies, 1954promotedto OrganisingSecretaryExtraMuralStudies, Riverain Provinces 1955;Bursar of Institute ofAdmin, Zaria, 1956; CadetAdmin Officer, 1958;Assistant Distria Officer, Borno Distria, 1959; Distria Officer, Borno Division and Senior Federal Ekaoral Officer, 1959; Distria Officer, Jada then Ganye ( Northern Cameroons) 1960; Distria Officer, Katagun 1962; Distria Officer in charge Ganye (Sardauna Province) 1962; Senior Distria Officer, Southern Division- Ganye, Gembu ( Mambilla ) Baissa, 1963; Senior Assistant Secretary, TechnicalAssistant, Ministry of Economic Planning 1963; ProvincialSecretary, Katsina Province 1965- 1966; Deputy Permanent Secretary then PermanentSecretary, Ministry ofEconomic Planning, Northern Region of Nigeria, 1966-1968; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kwara State, 1969; Permanent Secretary, Agric culture andNatural Resources, Kwara State, 1968; PermanentSecretary, Ministry of Works andSurveys, Kwara State, 1970;PermanentSecretary, Military Governors Office, Political, EconomicandResearch, Kwara State, 1970; Permanent Secretary, HomeAffairs andInformation responsibleforestablishing the Ministry inKwara State 1972;PermanentSecretary, Ministry of Education, 1975. Hewas SeniorFederalEkaoral Officialin-charge ofBorno Provincefor 1959 FederalElections, Northern Cameroon&#8217;splebiscites 1960 and 1962;Northern Nigerian Representative on the NigerDamsCommittee 1963 -65; Northern Nigeria Delegate to the 0~A.U Conference in AddisAbaba led by Alhaji Wa^ri Ibrahim, 1964; Cambridge University ConferenceforCommonwealth Countries on Trade AidandDevelopmentledby Chief Simeon Adebo, 1966;IuindProbeAlkgationsprovedfaUetythelaUHon.Mr;]usticeAaewuyisPanel1970- on the wrong doings -abuse of office, corruption etc nottenable. 1975-76. Theophilus Walter Bako was appointedMember of Kogi Local Government Council andMember of the LSM.B.Jan. 1979 toDec. 1979;AppointedDirector, Kwara State Furniture andManufacturing Company Lid, Jan. 1977 to Dec. 1979;appointed Member of Land Use Allocation Committee and Chairman of the Technical Sub Committee April 1977 to Dec. 1979;Appointed as Supervisory Councilor in charge of Education, Health and Social Welfare, September 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18860","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18860","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\/18860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18860"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}