{"id":13583,"date":"2017-03-03T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13583"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:53:26","slug":"omole-chief-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/omole-chief-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"OMOLE, Chief Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>businessman, philanthropist, born in 1915, Ilesa, Osun State, married, has children; Education: St John&#8217;s School, Iloro, Ilesa; Career: Ap pointed Construction Labourer, 1928-35; served as UAC Produce Depot buyer for Ijesa Zone; Founder and Chairman, International Breweries Limited, Ilesa, since 1978; mem ber, defunct Western Nigeria Marketing Board; established Lawrence Omole Foun dation to award scholarships to deserving Ni gerian undergraduates; endowed a research grant in support of solar energy research in the Faculty of Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; appointed Jus tice of Peace (JP); Honorary Degree: awarded honorary Doctor of Science, Uni versity of&#8217;Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo Uni versity), Ile-Ife, 1981; Hobby: philanthropy; Official Address: International Breweries Limited, PO Box 104, Ilesa, Osun State; Telephone: 036-461-150-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13583","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13583","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\/13583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}