{"id":22045,"date":"2019-02-11T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=22045"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:26:05","slug":"fowler-dr-babatunde","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/fowler-dr-babatunde\/","title":{"rendered":"FOWLER, Dr Babatunde"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Babatunde Fowler is a Nigerian public officer, tax administrator and social reformer. He started out as a Marketing Intern with Avon Products Inc. New York, working under the Vice President in charge of Africa. Dr Fowler Later on made a career change from International Finance and Marketing to Banking in January 1984. In the banking industry he had the opportunity to work and also head broad and varied areas of banking operations and business development in 2 major commercial banks over the next 20 years. Upon leaving the banking industry in 2004, Dr. Fowler joined the Lagos State Government and was appointed the pioneer Permanent Secretary\/Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue on the 24th of November 2005, thereby upgrading the office of the Executive Chairman to the highest level in the Civil Service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":25086,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2404,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-22045","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-banker","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/22045","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\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/22045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25085,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/22045\/revisions\/25085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22045"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=22045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}