{"id":16823,"date":"2017-03-21T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16823"},"modified":"2017-11-01T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:50:16","slug":"sijuwade-hrh-oba-okunade-adele","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/sijuwade-hrh-oba-okunade-adele\/","title":{"rendered":"SIJUWADE, HRH Oba Okunade Adele (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tradi tional ruler, businessman, born January 1, 1930, Ile-Ife, Oyo State; married Yetunde Oyebode 1959, one son, three daughters; Education: St John&#8217;s School, Igbein, Abeokuta, Abeokuta Grammar School, Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife, British Institute of Management, Holborn, London, Business Management (Attachment) Training, Italy Greece, Cyprus, Scotland, West-Germany and Israel; served in the Nigerian Tribune, Ibadan in the 1950s; First African Trainee Manager, Leventis Group of Companies, Manchester, England, 1957-59; Sales Manager, Leventis Motors (defunct Western Nigeria), Ibadan, 1959; Regional Manager and later Adviser, Leventis Group (defunt Western Region), 1961; Personal Assistant to the Chairman, Leventis Group, 1962; Managing Director, National Motors (Nigeria) Limited, 1963; Direc tor and Chairman of various business concerns including: WAATECO, Euro-African Services Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Royal Carpet, Ibadan, Agip Petrol State, Ile-Ife, and Motel Royal, Ile-Ife; Crowned the Ooni of Ife, Olubuse II, since November 1980; Chairman, Oyo State Traditional Rulers Council; President, Ad visory Committee of Yoruba Obas; appointed Chancellor, University of Cross River State, Uyo, since March 1988; member, British In stitute of Mangement; member, Island Club, Lagos; member, Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos; member, Ife Country Club; Award: Awarded Honorary Fellow of the National PostGraduate Medical College of Nigeria, 1988; Traditional Title: The Ooni Olubuse II of Ife National Honour: Conferred with Com mander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR), 1983; Justice of the Peace (JP); Foreign Honour: Recipient of Gold Medal as the Key to the Cuban Capital, Havana, 1988; Honorary Degrees: Conferred with Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws (Hons. D.CL), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1987; Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. D.Ltt), Unviersity of Cross River State, Uyo, 1988; Hobbies: swim ming, squash, horse-riding; Official and Home Address: Aafin, Enuwa Square (Ooni&#8217;s Palace), Ile-Ife, Oyo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,389],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16823","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-royalty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16823","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22686,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16823\/revisions\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}