{"id":7553,"date":"2017-01-11T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7553"},"modified":"2017-11-30T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:30:38","slug":"bolaji-simeon-labanji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bolaji-simeon-labanji\/","title":{"rendered":"BOLAJI, Simeon Labanji (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MPA, journalist, administrator, born April 3, 1935, Ibadan, Oyo State; married Deborah Bolanle Siyanbola 1962, three sons, one daughter; Education: St Peter&#8217;s School, Aremo, Ibadan, 1948; Ibadan Boys&#8217; High School, 1949-51, Olu-lwa (now Adeola Otutola) College, Ijebu- Ode, 1953-54, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan, 1955-57, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1957-60; University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1971-72; appointed Graduate Teacher, Igbo- Elerin Grammar School, Ibadan, 1960-62; ad ministrative Officer defunct Western Nigeria Civil Service, 1962-75; General Manager, Sketch Publishing Company Limited, Ibadan, 1972-74; General Manager, African News papers of Nigeria (Publishers of the Tribune), 1975-79; appointed Director, Concord Press of Nigeria, 1980-88; Associate Member, Nigerian Intitule of Management, member, Interna tional Press Institute, since 1973; fellow, Nigeria Union of Journalists, since 1975; Publications: Anatomy of Corruption in Nigeria (Daystar Press, 1970); Recipe for Nigerian Progress (Sketch Publishing Com pany Limited, 1973); Shagari: President by Mathematics, (1980); Hobbies: ayo, table ten nis, current affairs; Address: E7\/800 Okebadan Area, PO Box 970, Ibadan, Oyo State, Telephone: (01) 461886.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7553","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7553","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\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19253,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7553\/revisions\/19253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}