{"id":20952,"date":"2017-06-13T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=20952"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:20:07","slug":"ismaila-balarabe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ismaila-balarabe\/","title":{"rendered":"ISMAILA, Balarabe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, engineer, administrator, born August 21, 1934, Kano; married Hausatu Sani 1964, four sons, four daughters: Education: Shahuci Elementary School, Kano, 1942-45, Middle School, Kano, 1945-49, Barewa College, Zaria, 1949- 52, Norwood Technical College, London, 1954-56, University College, Swansea, Wales, 1956-59, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 1959-60; Career: Appointed Executive Engineer, defunct Northern Nigerian Government, 1960-63; Provincial Engineer, defunct Northern Nige rian Government, 1963-66; Deputy Chief Civil Engineer, defunct Northern Nigerian Government, 1966-68; appointed Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Housing, Kano, 1968-70: Chief Executive, Kano State Urban Development Board, 1970-71; Chief Aerodrome Engineer, Federal Ministry, of Transport, Lagos, 1971-75: appointed Sec retary to Kano State Military Government, 1975-78; appointed Federal Minister of Civil Aviation, 1978-79; Chairman, Kano State Water Resources and Engineering Construc tion Agency, 1984-86: National President, In dependent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, 1981 -86; Director, Reynolds Con struction Company Limited, 1979-87; Chair man, Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1985; Director, Kaduna Textiles Limited, 1980-86. Chairman and Managing Director, ABI Hold ings Limited, since 1980; Chairman and Chief Executive, Premier Oil and Gas Company Limited, since 1986; Chairman, Kaduna Tex tiles Limited, since 1986; Chairman, National Board for Technical Education, since 1986; Chairman, Pencol Nigeria Limited, since 1984; Director, Nigerian Dredging and Ma rine Limited, since 1980; Director, Commer cial Bank (Credit Lyonnais Nigeria) Limited, since 1983; Director, Bata Nigeria Limited, since 1985; Director, Strabag Construction Limited, since 1987; Director, Balasha-Jalon Nigeria, since 1983; member, Board ofTrust ees, Kano State Foundation, since 1987; member, Council ofNigerian Institute of Management, since 1987; member, Apapa Road Tribunal of Inquiry, 1970; member, Presidential Commission on Revenue Allo cation, 1979-80: member, Institute of Direc tors, London; member, Nigerian Society of Engineers; Chartered Engineer, registered by the Council of Registered Engineers of Ni geria; member, Nigerian Institute of Manage ment; National Honour: conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger, 1979: Hobbies: livestock breeding, farming, gar dening; Official Address: ABI Holdings Limited, ABI House, Zoo Road, PO Box 4451, Kano; Telephone: 064-621080, Home: Gandun Albasa, Kano State. Tele phone: 064-621116.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-20952","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/20952","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\/20952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20952"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=20952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}