{"id":21069,"date":"2017-07-24T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=21069"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T10:55:45","slug":"garba-professor-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/garba-professor-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"GARBA, Prof Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibrahim Garba is a Nigerian Professor of Geology and incumbent Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.[1] He succeeded Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, a Professor of Medicinal chemistry.[2]<br \/>\nBorn on February 25, 1957<br \/>\nin Riruwai, Doguwa local government area of Kano state<br \/>\nProfessor Garba had his first and second degrees at ABU between 1980 and 1985. He earned his Ph.D at the University of London in 1993.<br \/>\nAside the various positions he had held at federal and states ministries, Professor Garba has served as the Vice Chancellor of the Kano State University of Science and Technology, Wudil. He has also served as head of department of the ABU\u2019s Department of Geology, among many other positions.<br \/>\nHe has to his credit numerous papers in local and international journals, apart from other publications<br \/>\nProf. Garba worked on secondment at the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Abuja as Director-General, Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office.<br \/>\nHe Spear-headed the development and implementation of the Mining Cadastre System in Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-21069","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/21069","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/21069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21069"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=21069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}