{"id":8509,"date":"2017-01-20T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8509"},"modified":"2017-04-19T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:55:08","slug":"fagbure-gab","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/fagbure-gab\/","title":{"rendered":"FAGBURE, Gab"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>journalist,, educatio nist, former Commissioner for Home Affairs and Information, old Western State; Born: October 24, 1924, at Oluponna in Iwo Local Government ar ea, Oyo State; Education: Baptist Sc hool, Oluponna; Baptist School, Iwo; Baptist College, Iwo, 1939-43, Regent Street Polytechnic, London, 1954-55; obtained Teachers&#8217; Higher Elementary Certificate in 1943, Teachers&#8217; Senior Certificate in Geography in 1946; Loni don Matriculation in 1947 and Diplo ma in Journalism in 1955, was head master. Baptist School, Mopa near Kabba, 1944-46; headmaster. Baptist Sc hool, Igede-Ekiti, 1946-47 career jou rnalist since 1947 &#8211; sub-editor. Western Echo, Ibadan, 1947-48; sub-editor. New Times of Nigeria, Ibadan, 1948- 49; was editor. Western Echo and assis tant editor, West African Pilot, 1950- 53; became managing director. South ern Nigeria Defender, Ibadan, 1953- 54; editor. West African Pilot, 1956-57 principal information officer, Nigeria High Commission, London, 1957-60, information attache, Nigeria High Co mmission, London, 1960-63; correspondent, Financial Times, 1963-70, correspondent. Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, 1964-71; freelance journalist and public relations consultant in La gos, 1963-71; widely travelled in Nige ria, Africa, United Kingdom, Western Europe and Latin American; a Fellow of the Public Relations Association of Nigeria; one time president of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos, national president of Oluponna Deve lopment Association; Married and has seven children, six sons and a daugh ter; Hobby: reading, swimming, walk ing, billiards, photography, gardening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8509","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8509","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\/8509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}