{"id":17700,"date":"2017-03-27T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17700"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:55:07","slug":"lawson-adeyemi-olusola-chief-asalu-of-igbein","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/lawson-adeyemi-olusola-chief-asalu-of-igbein\/","title":{"rendered":"LAWSON, Adeyemi Olusola (Chief Asalu of Igbein)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lawyer, industrialist, born May 15, 1924, Lagos; married Ibidunni Olagbende Thompson 1946, one son, six daughters; Education: Caxton House School, 1929-30, Baptist Academy, Lagos, 1931-35, CMS Grammar School, Lagos, 1936-41, Inns of Courts School of Law, Lon don, 1945-48; Pupil Teacher, St Saviour&#8217;s High School, Lagos, 1942; Correspondence Clerk, Accountant-General&#8217;s Department and later Audit Clerk, Audit Department, Colonial Of fice, Lagos, 1942-44; engaged in private Legal Practice, 1948-64; founding Managing Direc tor, West African Breweries Limited (Nigeria&#8217;s first indigenous Brewing Company); Chair man, Associated Breweries Limited; Group Chairman, Lawsons Corporation Nigeria Limited; Director in various other Companies in Nigeria and abroad; Political Party member, defunct Action Group 1950-62 elected member, Lagos City Council 1950-60 Chairman. Lagos Town Council. 1954-60; ap pointed Queen&#8217;s Counsel, 1963 (same as Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Presi dent, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and In dustry, 1975-79; President, Nigerian Associa tion of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, (NACCIMA), 1978-80; member, Executive Board, Interna tional Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 1980-82; President, Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce, 1981-82; Leader, Delegation of Nigerian Chapter of the USNigerian Business Council Meeting, 1981; President, Federation of African Chambers.of Commerce (FACC), since 1984; Chairman and Leader, Grail Movement of Nigeria; Tradi tional Titles: The Asalu of Igbein-Abeokuta, The Babalaje of Egbaland; National Honour: Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON); Publication: Growth, Equity and Self Reliance, co-editor (Westview Press, 1987); Hobbies: music, reading, swimming; Official Address: Associated Breweries and Company Limited, 121\/123 Western Avenue, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 832595, 831404; Home: Grailland, Iju Hill, Agege, PO Box 415\/, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 964676, 901850-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[307,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17700","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-industrialist","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17700","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\/17700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17700"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}