{"id":11839,"date":"2017-02-23T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11839"},"modified":"2017-05-19T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:32:46","slug":"olalokun-prof-festus-akin","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olalokun-prof-festus-akin\/","title":{"rendered":"OLALOKUN, Prof. Festus Akin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, MA, M.PHIL., economist, born November 4, 1935, Igbara-Oke, Ondo State married Sarah Modupe Sanu 1963, three sons one daughter. Education: St. Paul&#8217;s School Igbara-Oke, Ondo State, 1942-46, Holy Trinity School, Kano, 1947-50, St. Peter&#8217;s College Zaria, 1951-57, University of London and Birmingham, England, 1965-73; Lecturer Department of Economics, University of Lagos, 1972; Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Lagos, 1976; Professor of Economics, University of Lagos, 1983; member, Society for International Development, 1970; member, American Economic Association, 1969;- member, Royal Economic Society, 1969, member, fellow Woodrow Wilson Centre, 1982. Publication: Structure of The Nigerian Economy (Mac millan, 1979). Hobbies: lawn tennis, photography and gardening, Official Address: Department of Economics, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba. Telephone: (01) 821180. Home: Flat 2, Block 3, 16, Ransome Kuti Road, University of Lagos Campus, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 820886.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2403],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11839","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-economist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11839","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\/11839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}