{"id":7057,"date":"2016-12-07T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7057"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:28:38","slug":"balogun-chief-kolawole","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/balogun-chief-kolawole\/","title":{"rendered":"BALOGUN, Chief Kolawole"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B, MPA, Ph.D, lawyer, diplomat, politician, born April 11, 1922, Oshogbo. Oyo State; married, has children; Education: Government College. Ibadan, University College, London (External Student) 1948-51; called to the Bar, Lincoln&#8217;s Inn. London, 1951; worked as a Radio Announcer and later, Editor, West African Pilot; elected member, Western House of Assembly, Ibadan, 1953-54; member, House of Representatives, Lagos, 1954-58; appointed Minister without Portfolio. 1954; acting Federal Minister of Labour and Welfare, 1955; Federal Minister of Information and Research. 1956-58; appointed Nigerian High Commis sioner to Ghana. 1960-61; appointed Chair man. Nigerian National Snipping Line. 1962-65; Commissioner. Economics Planning and Social Development, defunct Western Nigeria. 1967; Commissioner for Education, defunct Western State, 1968-70; Chairman, Sketch Publishing Company Limited, Ibadan. 1971-73; engaged in private legal practice, since 1957; Political Parties: Secre tary\/Member, National Council of Nigerian and Cameroons (later National Council of Nigerian Citizens), London Branch, 1951; Na tional Secretary, NCNC, 1951-58; member. National Party of Nigeria (NPN); Publi cations: Mission to Ghana (New York, Vintage Press, 1963); Government in Old Oyo Empire, (Ibadan, Africanus Publishers, 1985); Hob bies: reading, writing; Official Address: 18A Oladipo Oluwolc Road, GRA, Apapa, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,166,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7057","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-politics","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7057","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\/7057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}