{"id":19066,"date":"2017-04-07T01:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=19066"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:05:23","slug":"umar-alhaji-abubakar","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/umar-alhaji-abubakar\/","title":{"rendered":"UMAR, Alh Abubakar"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, ad ministrator, born September 15, 1932, Zalau, Toro, Bauchi State; married: Hajara Yaro and Iyabo Lawal 1972, three daughters; Education: Lame Primary School, 1941-43, Bauchi Middle School, 1944-46, Barewa College, Zaria, 1947-50, School of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bellow University, Zaria, 1951-53, Institute of Administration, ABU, Zaria, 1958-59, Cam bridge University, UK, 1960-61, Royal College of Defence Studies, London, 1969-70; appointed Agricultural Officer and later pro moted Assistant Agricultural Superintendent, Agronomy Division, Institute of Agriculture, ABU, Zaria, 1954-57; Assistant District Of ficer, Idoma Division, former Benue Province, 1959-60; Assistant Secretary and Principal Private Secretary to the then Premier of defunct Northern Nigeria (Late Sir Ahmadu Bello), Premier&#8217;s Office, Kaduna, 1961-62; Senior District Officer, Katsina, 1963; ap pointed Administrator, Kaduna Capital Ter ritory, 1963-65; Principal District Officer, Kano, 1965-66; Provincial Secretary,- Borno Province (now Borno State), 1966-68; ap pointed Permanent Secretary (now DirectorGeneral), Ministry of Health, former NorthEastern State, 1968-70; Permanent Secretary (Agriculture) and Director (representing Botno State), Northern Nigerian Development Com pany, 1970-74; Director, NNDC and Northern Nigerian Marketing Board, 1974-75; appointed Secretary to the Military Government and Head of Service, defunct North-Eastern State, and also Chairman, Gombe Agricultural Development Project, 1975-76; Secretary, to the Military Government and Head of Service. Bauchi State and also Director, NNDC, 1976-78; member, 11-man working Committee to establish National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1976-78; Secretary and Director of Finance and Administration, NIPSS, Kuru, 1979-81; Director, Steyr (Nigeria) Limited, Bauchi, 1981-83; Chairman, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), 1983-84; Director, National Trucks Manufacturers (Nigeria) Limited, Kano, 1985-86; Chairman, Financial Instruction Review Commission Committee, Bauchi State, 1985; appointed Minister of Works and Housing, 1986. redeployed as Minister of Employment, Labour and Productivity, since 1987; Tradi tional Title: Wali of Bauchi; National Honour: conferred with Officer&#8217; of the Order of the Niger (OON); Hobbies: reading, farming, cat tle rearing, reading (religious, and security books), international affairs; Official Address: Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity, Federal Secretariat, Phase I, 7th Floor, Room 777, Ikoyi \u2014 Lagos; Telephone: (01) 686370, 683957; Home: 23, Temple Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State; Telephone: (01) 611523, 682208.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-19066","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/19066","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\/19066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19066"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=19066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}