{"id":7788,"date":"2017-01-13T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T08:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7788"},"modified":"2017-04-18T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:54:08","slug":"edu-chief-shafi-lawal","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/edu-chief-shafi-lawal\/","title":{"rendered":"EDU, Chief Shafi Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>businessman, ad ministrator, born in 1911, Epe, Lagos State, married, has children; Education: Epe Gov ernment School and private Studies; Career: Appointed Teacher; Clerk, African Oilnut Company, 1936; Local Manager, Holland West African Lines, 1945, Ships&#8217; Chandler, Newswatch WHO&#8217;S WHO 1945; Food Contractor for Nigerian Army, Lagos; elected member, Western House of Assembly, 1951-54; member Federal House ofRepresentatives, Lagos 1954; Vice-Presi dent, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and In dustry, 1958-63 and its president, 1963; ap pointed Commissioner of Health, defunct Western Nigeria, 1962; Vice-President, Com monwealth Chamber of Commerce, 1965-66 and its president, 1966; former Director, Ni gerian Oil Refinery Company; Former Di rector, Palm Lines; Chairman, African Alli ance; former Director, BP (Nigeria) Limited; Former Chairman, Niger Petroleum Com pany; former Chairman, Alumaco (Nigeria) Limited and Chairman, Blackwood Hodge Nigeria Limited; former President, Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, In dustry, Mines and Agriculture; currently President, Nigerian Conservation Founda tion; Hobbies: golf, swimming; Address: Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Km 19, Lagos-Epe Expressway, Lekki Peninsular, Lagos, PO Box 74638, Victoria Island, La gos; Telephone: 01-260-0600; Fax: 01-264-2497.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,209],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7788","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-business-person"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7788","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19351,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7788\/revisions\/19351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}