{"id":6731,"date":"2016-11-16T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6731"},"modified":"2017-04-19T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T08:30:41","slug":"awolesi-oba-moses-sowemimo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/awolesi-oba-moses-sowemimo\/","title":{"rendered":"AWOLESI, (Oba) Moses Sowemimo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> traditional ruler, Akarigbo of Ijebu Remo; Born at Shagamu, Ijebu Remo about 1894; Education: Wesley Sch ool Shagamu, 1904-10; We.sleyan ^ . (not Methodist) Boys High School, Lagos, 1911-13; passed College of Preceptors, 1912; Civil Service En trance Examination 1915, Court Interpreters&#8217; Examination, 1917; was a clerk with Elder Dempster Lines &#038; Company Lagos, 1914-16; 3rd class clerk Nigerian Secretariat, 1917; worked in various government de partments and retired as assistant chief clerk on pension in 1947 sales agent for C.F.A.O., Shagamu, 1949-52; installed Akarigbo of Ijebu Remo, April 25, 1952; appointed Leader of the Western House of Chiefs, 1960-65; awarded the Coro nation Medal, 1953, Medallion of Her Majesty&#8217;s visit to Western Nige- ^ ria, 1956, appointed Justice of the Peace, 1957; received Queen&#8217;s Silver Medal for Chiefs 1958; Married and has 18 children; Address: Afin Akarigbo, Offin Shagamu; P.O. Box 54, Shagamu, Ogun State; Tel.: 2001; Hobby: Jawn tennis, table tennis and swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[389],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6731","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-royalty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6731","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\/6731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6731"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}