{"id":7056,"date":"2016-12-07T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7056"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:27:46","slug":"balogun-chief-joseph-bayodele-bellius","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/balogun-chief-joseph-bayodele-bellius\/","title":{"rendered":"Balogun, Chief Joseph Bayodele Bellius"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born March 27, 1929at Somo- rika-Okpameri in Akoko Edo Local Government, Bendel State, Education: St. David&#8217;s School, Akure; Govern ment College, Ibadan; Yaba College of Technology: Diploma and Certificates in Automobile Engineering; Worked in Western Region Ministry of Works and Transport, Ibadan 1951-52; Ministry of Agriculture (Engineering Branch, 1952-61; In-service training and private courses: Passed City and Guilds exam of the University of London in Automobile Engineering; tough engi neering and farm mechanisation at School of Agriculture, Akure in 1961; 1962 and in Ministry of Education; Ibadan as tutor at Trade Centre, Oyo; transferred Government Trade Centre Sapele in 1963; later Ministry of Agriculture Benin City in-charge, farm mechanisation workshop; 1967: Farm Farm Institute, Agbrho, Warri, retired voluntarily on October 8, 1968. Joined Shell-BP Petroleum Develop ment Co., Warri in 1968, resigned in 1978; Chairman, Akoko-Edo Branch of Unity Party of Nigeria 1978. Mar ried with five children; Elected UPN member for Akoko-Edo in House of Representatives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7056","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7056","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19190,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7056\/revisions\/19190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}