{"id":10113,"date":"2017-02-08T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10113"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:58:18","slug":"oke-chief-ebenezer-folorunso","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oke-chief-ebenezer-folorunso\/","title":{"rendered":"OKE, Chief Ebenezer Folorunso"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>economist, chartered accountant, born March 16. 1937, Abeokuta, Ogun State; married Ronke Dania 1971, one son, three daughters; Education: CMS Primary School. Sapele. 1943-46, African Church School, Oniyanmo Ifo. 1947-48, African Church Primary School, Idi-Ape, Abeokuta, 1949, Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta. 1950-55. City of Birmingham College of Commerce, England, 1958-60, University of Southampton, England, 1960-63; Senior Accountant, Cooper and Lybrand. UK, 1966-67; Senior Accountant, Coopers and Lybrand, Lagos, 1967-72; Partner, Coopers and Lybrand, 1972-84; appointed Managing Partner, Coopers and Lybrand, since June 1984; fellow. Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria; fellow. In stitute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; Nigerian Representative, International Accounting Standard Steering Commit tee on the setting of the International Accounting Policy Statement on &#8220;Property, Plant and Equipment&#8221;; President, Nigerian Association of Management Consultants, 1986-87; President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, 1988-89; Part-time Lecturer in Accounting, University of Lagos, 1967-77; General Secretary, Abeokuta Club, 1972-85, Chairman, 1988; member, Visitation Panel, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 1975-85; member. National Board for Technical Education, 1976-80; Chairman, Ogun State Hotel Company Limited, 1980-83; member. National Committee on the Re-organisation of NEPA, 1983; member. Judicial Tribunal on the Lagos State Metroline Project, 1985; President, Lagos Lions Club, 1986-87; Deputy District Governor, District 404, Lions Club International, 1988-89; Honorable Treasurer, Alake Palace Building Committee; member, Metropolitan Club, Lagos; member, Ikoyi Club, Lagos; Traditional Titles; Jagunmolu of Keesi, Abeokuta; Akinyegun of Egbaland; Awards: Recipient: Deloitte-Plender Prize and Leo T. Little Prize (ICAEW, 1966; Publications: numerous articles in national and inter national accounting journals; Hobbies: squash, music, reading; Official Address: Coopers and Lybrand, 136 Lewis Street, PO Box 592, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 636472; Home: 65 Raymond Njoku Street, South West Ikoyi, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 681543. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10113","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10113","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}