{"id":6556,"date":"2016-11-15T15:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6556"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T09:05:06","slug":"asabia-chief-samuel-oyewole","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/asabia-chief-samuel-oyewole\/","title":{"rendered":"ASABIA, Chief Samuel Oyewole(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA (Hons) B.Sc, economist, banker, born December 7, 1931, Idoani, Ondo State; mar ried Maureen Patricia Lyon, two sons, two daughters; Education: Christ&#8217;s School, Ado- Ekiti, University of Exeter, England; Ad ministrative Officer, Nigerian Civil Service, 1954; Assistant District Officer, later Senior Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Finance, defunct Western Region, 1958-60; Senior Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office, Western Region; appointed Under Secretary, Premier&#8217;s Office, Western Region, 1961-62; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Home Affairs, 1962; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Establishments and Training, 1963-66; appointed Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, 1966-70; member, National Population Census, 1963; member, Ad-Hoc Committee on- Revenue Allocation, 1969; former member, Governing Board, Institute of Public Administration, University of Ife (how Obafemi Awolowo University) 1963-66; appointed Deputy Gover nor, Central bank of Nigeria, 1970-75; Vice- Chairman and Chief Executive, Standard Bank (now First Bank Nigeria Limited), Lagos, 1975; member, Board Directors, Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Com pany, 1970-75; Chairman, National Wages Advisory Council, 1972-75; Chairman, Capital Issues Commission, 1972-75; President, Nigerian Stock Exchange, 1975-81; Chairman and Managing Director, First Interstate Merchant Bank, since March 1987; former Vice- President, Nigerian Economic Society; Na tional Honour: Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1982; Publications: Development of Commercial Banking in Nigeria; Impact of the Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decrees on the Banks and other Financial Markets; Aspects of Inflationary Trends in the Nigerian Economy, 1973-79; Hobbies: squash, biographies, music, walking, cycling, swimming; Official Address: First In terstate Merchant Bank, Unity House, 37 Marina, Lagos. Telephone: (01) 666439, 666443, 666448.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2404,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6556","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-banker","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6556","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}