{"id":12679,"date":"2017-02-28T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=12679"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:23:33","slug":"ibru-olorogun-dr-michael-christopher-onajirevbe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ibru-olorogun-dr-michael-christopher-onajirevbe\/","title":{"rendered":"IBRU, (Olorogun) Dr. Michael Christopher Onajirevbe(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surname:
\nIBRU,
\nFirst Name:
\nMichael Christopher
\nOther Names:
\nOnajirevbe
\nGender:
\nMale
\nTitle:
\nDr
\nDate of Birth:
\nSunday, December 25, 1932
\nPlace of Birth:
\nWarri, Delta State
\nName of Spouse:
\nElsieNelly Krupp
\nMarital Status:
\nMarried
\nProfession:
\nIndustrialist
\nName of School:
\nIgbobi College, 1948-51
\nPrevious Appointments:
\nManager, UAC of Nigeria 1951-56; established LATBRU, a private partnership Company, 1956; CEO. Ibru Organisation; mem., Nigerian US Business Council; mm: Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nigerian-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, African Development Bank President’s Round-Table of Businessmen; ch. Board of Trustees, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Foundation; Oceanic Bank International Nigeria Limited; life v-ch. Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture; mm. Board of Trustees, National Science and Technology Fund, Nigerian-Brazilian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Nigerian Conservation Foundation; mm. Nigerian-Korea Economic Cooperation Council; member, Business Advisory Council of the International Finance Corporation, Washington DC, USA, 1989.
\nTraditional Titles:
\nOlorogun of Agbarha-Otor; Olorogun of Olomu.
\nNational Honours:
\nOrder of the Federal Republic, 1981; Outstanding Businessman Award of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1983
\nHonourary Degrees and Awarding Institutions:
\nDoctor of Laws, University of Benin, 1978; Doctor of Laws, University of Ibadan, 1988, Doctor of Agriculture, (Honoris Causa) University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, 2004; Distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian LawSchool by the Council of Legal Education, Abuja, 2004;
\nOutstanding Achievements:
\nLifetime Achievement Award, 11th Annual Thisday Award;
\nResidential Address:
\nOffice: Ibru Organisation, 33, Creek Road, P.M.B. 1155, Apapa, Lagos, tel: 01-616611, 615814. Resident: 20, Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos; tel: 01-2690870.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,209,307,167],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12679","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-business-person","category-industrialist","category-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12679","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25776,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12679\/revisions\/25776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}