{"id":25698,"date":"2019-11-08T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=25698"},"modified":"2019-11-08T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:36:03","slug":"balogun-kola","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/balogun-kola\/","title":{"rendered":"BALOGUN, Kola"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolawole Mohammed Balogun, popularly called Kola Balogun or KMB, was born on July 27th, 1956. KMB is from the famous Olubadan Ali-Iwo ruling house of Ibadanland. His father, Ibrahim Ayinde Balogun of blessed memory was a cocoa produce merchant at Lalupon railway station, and the mother, Alhaja Awawu Adunni was the Iyalode \u201cElepo pupa\u201d (Palm oil market men and women) of the entire Lagelu Local Government area of Ibadanland.<\/p>\n<p>Kolawole Mohammed Balogun educational career took him through Ratibi Muslim Primary School, Oluyoro, Ibadan, St. Peter\u2019s College, Abeokuta, Ogun State, and North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, USA.<br \/>\nHe graduated with both the Bachelor of Arts (B.A) and Doctors of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Political Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-25698","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25698","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25698"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=25698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}