{"id":12266,"date":"2017-02-26T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12266"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:09:31","slug":"olayide-professor-samson-olajuwon","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olayide-professor-samson-olajuwon\/","title":{"rendered":"OLAYIDE (Prof) Samson Olajuwon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>economist, educationist, born on May 12, 1933 in Ilesha, Oyo State of Nigeria; Sch ools attended: Apostolic Teacher Training CoUege, Ilesha, 194748; Government Teacher Training CoUege, Ibadan, 1951-52; Ealing Technical CoUege, London, 1957-59; University of California, Davis, USA, 1963-67; Qualifications: Teachers Certificate Grades UI &#038; U, December 1948 &#038; 1952 respectively; B.Sc (Econs) (Hons) London, June 1959; M.Sc. (Agric. Econs.) California, June 1964; Ph.D. (California), ,October 1967; Married with 4 children; Appointments Held: Tutor, Apostolic Teacher Training College Ilesha, 1954 &#8211; July 1957; Vice-Principal, Muslim High School, Shagamu, October 1959 &#8211; March 1961; Principal, Ebenezer Grammar School, Abeokuta, April 1961 &#8211; January 1963; Satistical Analyst, University of California, Davis, USA, July 1964 &#8211; September 1966; Lecturer (Agric. Econs) University of Ibadan, October 1967; Ag. Head of Dept. of Agric. Econs. University of Ibadan, Summer 1968; Supervisor of Graduate Programme in Agric. Econs, 1968-72; Visiting Professor of Econo mics, Iowa State University, Annes Iowa, August-December 1971; Appointed Professor &#038; Head of Dept. of Agric. Econs. &#038; Extension, May 1973 &#8211; October 1977; Appointed Dean, Faculty of Agric, Forestry and Vet. Science, University of Ibadan 1974\/75 and 1975\/76 sessions; Appo inted Deputy Vice-ChanceUor, Univer sity of Ibadan for 1976-77, 1977-78, ;?78-79 and 1979-80 sessions; Appo inted Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan for a four-year tenn with effect from December 1, 1979; Clubs and other associations: Membership of the following Academic Societies; Nigerian Economic Society; Nigerian Agricultural Society; American Agricultural Economics Society; American Economic Society; American Dairy Science Association; Econometric Society; Society for International De velopment; Forum International; Nigerian Society for Quantitative Economics; West African Association for Agric. Economists; Association for Advancement of Agric. Sciences in African; Nigerian Society of Animal Production; Nigeriaa Association of Agric. Economists; Publications: Writ ten many theses, monographs and mimeographs; Technical Reports and Papers; Books; journaal\/articles and conference papers; Hobbies: Dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2403,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12266","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-economist","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12266","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\/12266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}