{"id":8281,"date":"2017-01-18T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8281"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:40:02","slug":"eke-chief-abudu-yesufu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/eke-chief-abudu-yesufu\/","title":{"rendered":"EKE, Chief Abudu Yesufu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, B.Sc, M.A, educationist, administrator, company director, born September 7, 1923, Benin City, Bendel State; married Clara Noyogiere Anyanso 1956, two sons, four daughters; Education: Govern ment School, Benin City, 1933-37, Edo Col lege, Benin City, 1938-39, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1939-44, Government College, Ibadan, 1944-45, Higher College, Yaba, 1946-47, University College, Ibadan, January-July 1948, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1952-54; Assistant Publicity Officer, Publicity Officer and later Information Officer, Federal Information Service, 1948-55; Assistant Registrar, University College, Ibadan, 1955-59; Principal Information Officer, Chief Information Officer and later Director, Ministry of Home Affairs, Western Region, Ibadan, 1959-61; Registrar, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1961-62; Commissioner for Information, Western Nigeria, May 28-July 31, 1962; Registrar, University of Lagos, 1962-71; Direc tor, Institute of Mass Communication, Univer sity of Lagos, 1966-69; Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Midwestern Nigeria, 1967-71; Federal Com missioner for Education, 1971-74; Nigeria&#8217;s Ambassador to the United States, 1981-84; Chairman, Edecon Limited; Political Party: member, banned National Party of Nigeria (NPN); Traditional Title: The Obasuyi N&#8217;Oghaevbu of Benin; Honorary Degrees: conferred with Honorary Doctor of Law (Hon. LL.D), University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1974; Honorary Doctor of Law (Hon. LL.D), Wayne State University USA, 1982; Honorary D.P.S., Voorhees College, South Carolina, USA, 1983; Publications: History of Group Divergence in Physical Anthropology; One Nigeria (one act play); Problems of Decolonization in Africa; The Future ofOA U; A New Policy in Education in Nigeria; The Eradication of Illiteracy in Nigeria; Official Address: Edecon Associates Limited, 6A Tafawa Balevva Square, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 636765; Home: 28A Cameron Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; Telephone: (01)680085, 683165.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8281","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8281","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\/8281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}