{"id":26159,"date":"2020-08-24T12:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=26159"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:04:53","slug":"oni-ola","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oni-ola\/","title":{"rendered":"ONI, Ola"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ola Oni (1933\u20131999) was a Nigerian marxist political economist, socialist and human right activist..The anti-military and pro-democracy, Ola Oni hails from Ekiti State southwestern Nigeria where he was born but based in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.[3] He was a lecturer at the University of Ibadan but was sacked due to his radicalism.[4] Ebenezer Babatope&#8217;s book, &#8220;Student Power in Nigeria&#8221; (1956-198), tells the life of Ola Oni.[5] He died on December 22, 1999 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.[6] After his demise, he was immortalized and a social research center, Comrade Ola Oni Centre For Social Research was named after him.He was married to Kehinde Ola Oni, a retired civil servant who is now blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,3245],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-26159","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-lecturer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26159","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26160,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26159\/revisions\/26160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26159"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=26159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}