{"id":12909,"date":"2017-02-28T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12909"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:33:37","slug":"oludimu-professor-olufemi-ladipo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oludimu-professor-olufemi-ladipo\/","title":{"rendered":"OLUDIMU, Prof Olufemi Ladipo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Sc, M.BA, Ph.D., university teacher, born March 1, 1951; Lagos, married Adeyinka; five children. Education: University of Ibadan, Oyo State, 1971-74; University of Oxford United Kingdom, 1975-76; Leeds Polytechnic, United Kingdom, 1977- 78; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1981-83; 84-87; Deutsche Stiftury Fur Internationale Enthickllung, Germany, 1992; Ogun State University, 1994-97. Career: Appointed Clerical Officer, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, 1971, Senior Science Tutor and House Master, Government High School, Ilorin, 1974-75; Lecturer II, Obafemi Awolowo University Ife, 1980-1982;Lecturer II, 1982- 1984; Senior Lecturer, 1984-1992; Contributory member, World Bank\/Central Bank of Nigeria Committee on the Nigerian Agricultural Credit System, 1985; Visiting Senior Lecturer; University of Benin, 1990-91; Associate Lecturer, Federal Universityof Technology Akure, 1991-92; 1996-98; Associate Lecturer, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 1993-94,97-98; Associate Professor, Ogun State University, 1992-93; 94-95; Graduate of the London Institute of Marketing, Certificate in Farming Systems Development; member, Ford Foundation Fellowship Team on Local Institutions for Socio Economic Development in Nigeria, 1988-97. Awards \/ Honours: International Biographical Centre Cambridge, England, as International Man of the Year in recognition of services to Education, 1991-92; Certificate of Merit Award by IBC Cambridge for distinguished services as Man of Achievement; Rockefeller Foundation\/Winrock International Travel Award to Zimbabwe as an Outstanding African Social Sciences Re search; Western Regional Government Scholar, Igbobi College, Lagos, 1964-68; winner, Justice Taslim Elias Prize for School Certificate Examination 1968; Royal Neth erlands Government Scholar; Ogun State Government Scholar 1976-79. Publications: Local Instituttions and Socio-Economic Development in Rivers State, Nigeria, Ford Foundation Research Monograph on Local Institutions in Nigeria, 1990, Agri cultural Management: A Private Sector Perspective, Base Three Book Publishers, Erelu House, Ijebu, 1998, Co-author: Promoting Agricultural Co-operatives In Nigeria in the 1990s,  European Community&#8217;s co-operative Education Project Monograph Ibadan 1992, Co-author: Credit for Livestock Development in Kaduna State, Nigeria with Special Reference to Cattle Production, OAU, 1991 and many others. Official Address: Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Man agement, Ogun State University, P.M.B. 2002, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12909","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12909","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\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}