{"id":10868,"date":"2017-02-17T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10868"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:48:20","slug":"okoya-alhaji-rasaq","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okoya-alhaji-rasaq\/","title":{"rendered":"OKOYA, Alhaji Rasaq"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CON; industrialist, merchant, businessman; DOB: January 12, 1940; Place: Cow Lane Lagos;State: Kwara; Married: Alhaja Kuburat Okoya; has children; EDUCATION: Attended Premier Muslim School, or now Ansar-Un-Deen School Okepopo, Lagos; combined practice apprenticeship in his father&#8217;s tailoring and allied business with Schooling; CAREER: petty trading; setting up cottage industries for jewelry and shoes; distribution of house hold goods; He is a pioneer plastic manufacturer; Founder\/Chief Executive, Eleganza Industries Limited; RAO Investment Property Company Limited; Oregun Technical Engineering Limited; mm. Manufacturers Association of Nigeria; round recipient of Nigerian Institute of Standards Golden award for quality 1998-2000; National Honours: Commander of the Order of the Niger; Traditional Title: Otun-Aare Adinni of Lagos Central Mosque; Bobajiro of Oke-Ona, Egba: Patrons of many clubs; Knight Commander of the distinguished order of Peacock; Social Club: Island Club, Patron of many Clubs; Frontline philanthropist Cow lane Razaq Okoya Crescent (Re-named inner crescent after him) by Eti-Osa local government area also Rasaq Okoya (formarlly Cow lane); hon. by the Ondo State University, Ado Ekiti doctor degree in Business Administration; off: Eleganza Industries Ltd., 3\/5, Ikoyi Crescent, Ikoyi; P.O. Box 991, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,307],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10868","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-industrialist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10868","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\/10868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}