{"id":14355,"date":"2017-03-08T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14355"},"modified":"2017-04-24T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:10:09","slug":"ijewere-dr-gabriel-oyaletor","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ijewere-dr-gabriel-oyaletor\/","title":{"rendered":"IJEWERE, Dr. Gabriel Oyaletor"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, M.Litt, M.P.A, born April 24, Ph.D, econo mist, diplomat, 1931, Ubiaja, Delta State; married Stella Eboehi 1963, four sons, three daughters; Education: Abeokuta Grammar School 1943-48, London School of Economics, 1953-56, St Catherine&#8217;s College, Oxford University 1956-59 Harvard Univer sity, USA, 1961-62;Career: Appointed Ad ministrative Officer, Western Region of Ni geria, 1959-63; Assistant Registrar, University of Ibadan, 1963-65; Head of Econom ics Department. Ministry of External Affairs, 1956-66; Charge d&#8217; Affairs, Permanent Mis sion of Nigeria, Geneva, 1966-67; Counsel lor and Head ofChancery, Embassy ofNige ria, Washington DC, 1967-68; Counsellor and Head ofChancery, Embassy ofNigeria, Addis Ababa, 1968-70; Director, Africa Depart ment, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, 1970-72, Nigeria High Commissioner to Ghana, 1973-76;Nigerian Ambassador to the European EconomicCommunity (EEC),and also to Belgium and Luxembourg, 1976-78; Head, EconomicDepartment, Ministry of ex ternal Affairs, 1978-81; Nigerian Ambassa dor and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, 1981-84; Consult ant, United Nations Conference on Trade De velopment;Consultant,Commonwealth Sec retariat, and the United Nations&#8217; Food and Agricultural Organisation, 1984-86; Served as Nigeria&#8217;s Official Representative in sev eral International Organisations &#8211; Geneva Agreementon Trade and Tariff; World Health Organisation; International Labour Organisation;EconomicCommunity of West African States; Economic Commission for Africa; Disarmaments Conference, Geneva; appointed Commissioner,National Electoral Commission, 1987- 1989; redeployed to the Presidency. July 1989; Traditional Title: The OdionweleofUbiaja; Foreign Honour: Re cipient of foreign honours from Guinea, Cameroon, Benin Republic,Senegal,Repub licof Togo, 1970-72; Hobbies: lawn tennis, photography, walking; Home: 41. Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-613454.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2398,2403],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14355","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-diplomat","category-economist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14355","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}