{"id":12168,"date":"2017-02-26T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12168"},"modified":"2017-05-16T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:23:26","slug":"hon-m-a-olukoya","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/hon-m-a-olukoya\/","title":{"rendered":"OLUKOYA, Hon. M. A."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Hon. M. A. Olukoya represents Ijebu-Ode Consti tuency, Ogun State, in the House of Represen tatives. He was born on December 28, 1938 at Ikoto, Ijebu-Ode. Between 1964 and 1966, he attend ed the University of London for his LL.B degree. He received his Master&#8217;s degree in Law from King&#8217;s College, London in 1967 and his B.L. from the Middle Temple in 1968. After at tending the Nigerian.Law School, hewascalled to the Nigerian Bar in 1969. Hon. Olukoya set up his chambers shortly after being called to the Nigerian Bar, and in 1972, he became the Company Secretary\/Legal Adviser of Adebowale Elec trical Industries Limited. In 1978 he was back in his Chambers before opting for politics in the following year. Hon. Olukoya is married with six children. He plays lawn tennis for recreation and has visited the U.K., other parts of Europe, USA, China, Japan and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12168","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12168","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\/12168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20362,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12168\/revisions\/20362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12168"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}