{"id":13670,"date":"2017-03-03T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13670"},"modified":"2017-05-23T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:24:37","slug":"oyelakin-lawrence-oladejo-olufolahan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oyelakin-lawrence-oladejo-olufolahan\/","title":{"rendered":"OYELAKIN, Lawrence Oladejo Olufolahan"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>administrator, diplomat, born June 13, 1936, Wakajaye-Gbongan, Oyo State; married Elizabeth Ablaba Birch 1970, four sons, four daughters; Education: St Paul&#8217;s Primary School, Gbongan, 1944-52, Kennington Col lege, London, 1960-61, Regent Polytechnic, London, 1961-62, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA, 1964-65; Confidential Secretary, Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1956-64; Held various Administrative Posi tions in the defunct Western Nigeria Public Service, 1964-68; Second and First Secretary, Nigerian Embassy, Lome, Togo, 1970-72; First Secretary, Nigerian Embassy, Bonn, West Germany, 1972-74; Head, Accreditation Divi sion, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, 1974-75; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Nigeria High Commission, Nairobi, Kenya, 1975-79; Acting High Commissioner, Nairobi, Kenya, January-August, 1978; Head, Finance and Budget Division, Ministry of External Af fairs, Lagos, 1979-81 and Secretary, Foreign Service Review Panel, 1980-81; Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, Nigerian Embassy, Dublin, Ireland, 1981-84 and Bonn, West Ger many, 1984-85; Acting Director, Office of the Minister of External Affairs, Lagos, 1986-87; appointed Nigerian Ambassador to the People&#8217;s Republic of the Congo, since September 1987; Associate Member, Corpora tion of Secretaries, London, 1962; Associate Member, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, London, since 1970; fellow, Royal Economic Society, London; fellow, Society of Commercial Teachers, Lon don; Hobbies: writing, walking, photography; Official Addresss: Embassy of Nigeria, B.P.790, Brazzaville, People&#8217;s Republic ofthe Congo; Telephone: 831316, 832749; Home: 1 Rue L&#8217;amitie, Quarter Olympic Palace, Braz zaville, The People&#8217;s Republic of the Congo; Telephone: 834959<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13670","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13670","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13670"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}