{"id":12825,"date":"2017-02-28T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12825"},"modified":"2019-11-01T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:38:54","slug":"olowoporoku-dr-olabode","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olowoporoku-dr-olabode\/","title":{"rendered":"OLOWOPOROKU, Dr. Olabode"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owolabi, B.Sc, MA, Ph.D., industrial and economic consultant, politician; born September 29, 1945; married 1971; one son, three daughters. Education: University of Ife, 1970; Manchester University, England, 1976. Career: Appointed High School Teacher, Akure, 1970-Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Administratioin, Univer sityof Ife, 1971 -72; Junior Research Fellow and Post-graduate Student, Manchester Uni versity, 1972-76; Lecturer, Economic Devel opment\/Economic Planning, University of Ife, 1976-79; Commissioner for Economic Planning, old Ondo St71; ate, 1979-81; ap pointed Federal Minister ofState for Science and Technology, 1983; member, Nigerian Economic Society; member, West African Economic Society, Governorship Candidate, All Peoples Party, Ekiti State, 1999. Politi cal Parties: member, defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, member, defunct National Party of Nigeria, member, defunct National Republi can*Convention, member, defunct, Demo craticPartyof Nigeria, member, All Peoples Party, Ekiti State, 1999; member, Peoples Democratic Party since 1999. Honour: Ford Foundation Fellowship, Manchester, 1972-76. Hobbies: reading and writing Home: Ijewi Street, Aye Quarters, Ilawe- Ekiti, Ekiti State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12825","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12825","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25650,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12825\/revisions\/25650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}