{"id":7699,"date":"2017-01-12T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7699"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T09:24:13","slug":"boyo-joseph-toye-lewis","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/boyo-joseph-toye-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYO, Joseph Toye Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>civil servant, secretary to* the Military Government and Head of Service, Bendel State Civil Service; Born Nov ember 29, 1923 at Papa Alanto, Abeokuta, Ogun State; Education: Holy Cross Catholic School, Lagos; Government Middle School, Ibadan; Government School, Lagos; King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1938-42; Higher College, Yaba where he obtained Inter- B.Sc. (Engineering), 1945; Public Works Department Technical School Lagos \u2014Certificate in Engineering, 1946; Trinity College, Dublin Uni versity, 1953-57, obtained D.P.A. (Dublin) 1955, B.A. (Dublin) 1957 and later in 1960, M.A. (Dublin); Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1960-61 D.P.A. (Carlton) 1961; began civil service career as engineer ing assistant, 1946-58, appointed administrative officer, Western Nige ria civil service, 1958-63; transferred to the Midwestern Nigeria civil ser vice on creation of the region in 1963 becoming secretary Marketing Board, 1964-65; secretary Mid western Nigeria Office, London, 1965-66; director of training and manpower. Ministry of Establish ments, 1969-70; permanent secre tary, Ministry of Education, January 1, 1970 &#8211; April 9, 1970; permanent secretary. Ministry of Lands and Housing, April &#8211; August, 1970; permanent secretary, Ministry of Establishments, September 1970 &#8211; January 1971; permanent secretary, Military Governor&#8217;s Office, February 1, 1971 &#8211; November 17, 1971; per manent secretary. Ministry of Trade and Industry, Nov. &#8211; Dec. 1971; permanent secretary. Ministry of Home Affairs and Information, Jan. \u2014 Nov. 1972; permanent secretary, Ministry of Education, February 1972 &#8211; December 15, 1973 &#8211; Jan. 24, 1975; permanent secretary (Pub lic Service Matters Department), Military Governor&#8217;s Office, Jan. 25, 1975 \u2014August 15, 1975; sole admi nistrator, State Education Board, August 15, 1975 &#8211; Jan. 9, 1976; appointed to present post on August 30, 1975; served as chairman of committee of inquiry into conditions of service in the statutory boards and corporations; chairman, establish ments committee on development administration, 1974; chairman, state committee on the Udoji Report, 1974; awarded Fellow of the Nige rian Institute of Personnel Manage ment (F.I.P.M.), 1975 and Member of the Nigerian Institute of Manage ment (MNIM); Married and has five children; Address (Home): 11, Aghayubini Crescent, Off Aideyan Street, G.R.A., Benin City; (Office): Military Governor&#8217;s Office, P.M.B. 1081, Benin City, Bendel State; Telephone: 5 and 500; Hobby: hockey and soccer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7699","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7699","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\/7699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}