{"id":13706,"date":"2019-10-07T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13706"},"modified":"2019-10-07T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:49:18","slug":"omotayo-amb-albert-gbolahan","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/omotayo-amb-albert-gbolahan\/","title":{"rendered":"OMOTAYO, Amb. Albert Gbolahan (MFR)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amb. Omotayo is a trained Philosopher, Political Scientist, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Author and Poet. He is experienced, well exposed, highly motivated and goal driven, with a public service experience spanning over 34 years in the Federal and State Home Services, as well as, in the foreign service, where he played active roles as a Technocrat, Diplomat and Political Head, in the official decision making process.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Omotayo attained by promotion in January 1999, the rank of DIRECTOR, the highest career expectation of a Nigerian civil servant, in the Federal Civil Service.<br \/>\nHe has been decorated with the National Honours Award of MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC (MFR) for loyal, honest and dedicated service. He has served as the HIGH COMMISSIONER (AMBASSADOR) of Nigeria to the Republic of Mozambique and with concurrent accreditation to Madagascar and Mauritius from 1999 to 2003.<br \/>\nHe also served as COMMISSIONER FOR ENVIRONMENT in Ekiti State, Nigeria from June 2005 to November 2005 and served as CHIEF OF STAFF to the Executive Governor\/Administrator of Ekiti State from December 1, 2005 to April 2007.<br \/>\nAmb. Omotayo  also served as ASSISTANT PASTOR of Foursquare Gospel Church, Festac, Lagos 1994 &#8211; 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Omotayo is currently a PUBLISHER, PUBLIC SPEAKER, AUTHOR, BOOK EDITOR, LIFE ORIENTATION CONSULTANT and PRESIDENT of Sundaben Life Adjustment Consultants (Interested in offering life orientation services to the public, for the promotion of individual and corporate effectiveness, best behaviour and general well being). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24192,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2436,319,2398,2437],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13706","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-author","category-clergy","category-diplomat","category-poet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13706","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\/13706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23897,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13706\/revisions\/23897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}