{"id":6960,"date":"2016-11-28T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6960"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:40:15","slug":"bafyau-paschal-myeleri","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bafyau-paschal-myeleri\/","title":{"rendered":"BAFYAU, Paschal Myeleri"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>trade unionist, born March 17, 1947, Larmude, Numan, Gongola State; married, has children; Educa tion: St Patrick&#8217;s Primary School, Numan, St Rita&#8217;s Primary School, Bare, 1954-60, Villanova Secondary School, Numan, 1961-65, School of Agriculture, Kabba, 1966, Railway Permanent Way Training School, Zaria, 1967-69, International Centre for Advance Technical and Vocational Training, Turin, Ita ly, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, near Jos; General Secretary Northern Nigeria Agricultural Students&#8217; Union, 1966-67; Chairman (School Branch) Railway Permanent Way Workers Union, 1967-69; District Chairman, Railway Perma nent Way Workers Union, 1969-73; District Secretary, Nigerian Union of Railwaymen (Federated) 1972-73; Secretary, North Eastern State Branch, United Labour Congress, 1971-73; National Vice-President, Railway Permanent Way Workers Union, 1974-78; leader, Progressive Front, Nigeria Labour Movement, 1975-78; General Secretary, Nigeria Union of Railwaymen, 1978-89; Vice- President, Nigeria Nigeria Labour Congress, February 1988; President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), since January 1989; member, Political Bureau, 1986-87; member, Consti tuent Assembly, Abuja, 1988-89; Chairman, Nigeria Committee in Defence of Nicaragua; Chairman, Nigeria-Korea Friendship Associa tion; member, National Institute (rani); Publi cation: Socio-Economic Alternative for the Nigerian Workers; Official Address: Nigeria Labour Congress, National Secretariat, 29 Olajuwon Street, off Ojuelegba Road, Yaba, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 835571.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6960","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-activism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6960","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\/6960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}