{"id":11576,"date":"2017-02-22T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11576"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:37:39","slug":"hon-akin-ogunseye","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/hon-akin-ogunseye\/","title":{"rendered":"OGUNSEYE, Hon. Akin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Akin Ogunseye was born on the 7th of January 1929 at Otta near Lagos. A christian and one of the nine children of Mr. Balogun Ogunseye Bamgbose, a farmer at Otta and Madam Erinle-Odi Sadare, a merchant also at Otta, Hon. Ogunseye got married to his wife, Mrs. Adunni Odutola Ogunseye in Oc tober 1953 and they have four children. Hon. Akin Ogunseye attended a number of educational institutions. These are: African Church School, Otta, (1939-41); C.M.S. School, Otta (1942); Dr. Lucas Classes, Bread- Fruit St., Lagos (1946-48); School of Accoun tancy, Glasgow (1950-55); and the University of Lagos &#8211; Institute of Computer Science (1969). He obtained a diploma in Accountancy in 1955 he is also a fellow of the English Associa tion of Accountants and Auditors, and an Af filiate Member, Institute of Personnel Manage ment \u2014 Nigeria. He has worked in the fields of accountancy and book-keeping from 1948 to 1979. Some of his previous employers include John Holts (Nig.) Ltd., B.P. (Nig.) Ltd., Nigeria Hotels Ltd., Vivian Younger and Bond Ltd., and Bentworth Finance (Nig.) Ltd. Hon. Ogunseye became an Accounting Assistant in May 1960. In February 1963, he was elevated to the rank of Assistant Manager and promoted to the rank of Personnel Officer in January 1976. He became a Senior Personnel Officer in January 1978. He is a member of the Unity Party of Nigeria \u2014and represents Lagos Island South II, Lagos State, in the House of Representatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2406,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11576","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-accountant","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11576","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19932,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11576\/revisions\/19932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11576"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}