{"id":10268,"date":"2017-02-10T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10268"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:04:44","slug":"davies-chief-hezekiah-oladipo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/davies-chief-hezekiah-oladipo\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVIES, Chief Hezekiah Oladipo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Com (Hons), B.L, lawyer, businessman, born April 5, 1905, Lagos; married, has children; Educa tion: Methodist School, Olowogbowo, Lagos; Baptist School, Lagos, Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Lagos, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, London School of Economics and Political Science, England, called to the English Bar, Middle Temple, London, 1946; Teacher, King&#8217;s Col lege, Lagos, 1925-26; legal adviser to the Lagos and Colony State Movement, 1953-56; served as Assistant Manager, CMS Bookshop; Chair man, Nigerian National Press, 1961; elected member for Ekiti West Constituency, Federal House of Representatives, 1964; Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Industries, 1964-66; former Director, Nigerian National Press; Director, Arbico Limited, llupeju, Lagos; Director, Total Oil Products (Nigeria) Limited; Chairman, W.H. Biney and Com pany Limited; Chairman, Safrap (Nigeria) Limited; Director, Hassan Transport Limited; fellow. Institute of International Affairs, Har vard University; founder\/member, Nigerian Youth Movement, 1934 and its Chairman, 1946-48; President, West African Students Union, 1935-36; Secretary-General, West African Students Union, 1946; former Chair man, United Nations Organisation of Nigeria; former President, Nigeria-France Friendship Association; Political Party: member, defunct Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP); Hobby: sports; Official Address: 40, Stracham Street, Lagos; Home: 17, Agoro Street, Yaba, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10268","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10268","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10268\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}