{"id":13462,"date":"2017-03-02T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13462"},"modified":"2017-11-03T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:37:03","slug":"jakande-alhaji-lateef-kayode","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/jakande-alhaji-lateef-kayode\/","title":{"rendered":"JAKANDE, Alhaji Lateef Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>born July 23, 1929 in Lagos; Educa tion: Attended primary school in Lagos and post primary school; Ilesha; Career: Journalism for thirty years &#8211; 1949-79; Managing Editor, African Press Limited, 1954; General Manager, Amalgamated Press &#8211; publi shers of Daily Service and Sunday Express 1956; Editor-in-Chief; Amal gamated Press, 1956-60; Chairman and Managing Director, JohnWest Publica tions Limited; Lagos Book and Sta tionery Company Limited, Wings Limited; (a Public Relations firm) and Chairman\/Editor-in-Chief, African News Service, (News and Features Agency); Chairman, Board of Gover nors, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, 1970; Consultant, University of Nai robi School of Journalism, 1974; Co- Founder of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism; Co-Founder, First Trea surer and Patron of the Nigerian Union of Journalists; Founder, and First President, Nigerian Guild of Editors, 1961-72; Co-Founder and First President, Newspaper Proprie tors&#8217; Association of Nigeria; Founder and National Secretary National Press Club of Nigeria since I960; Active member Commonwealth Press Union, International Broadcasting Institute; Vice-President, International Press Institute, 1968-72; First African Presi dent, International Press Institute, 1972-74; Writer and publisher of five books and several lectures and Seminar papers; Publications: &#8220;The case for Lagos State;&#8221; &#8220;The Role of the Mass Media in a Developing Country&#8221; and &#8220;The Trial of Obafemi Awolowo;&#8221; Member, Lagos delegation to the adhoc Committee on Nigerian Consti tution, 1966-67. and later leader of the delegation; Detained in 1962 by the Federal Government; subsequently tried and jailed along with Chief Oba femi Awolowo in the treasonable felony case in September, 1963 and released in August, 1966 with full pardon by the Federal Government; Strong advocate of Prisoners&#8217; wel fare; Founder, National Association for Prisoners&#8217; Welfare; Married with seven children; Elected UPN civilian Governor for Lagos State in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13462","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13462","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13462"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}