{"id":7915,"date":"2017-01-16T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7915"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:50:39","slug":"odebeyi-chief-jonathan-akinremi-olawole","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/odebeyi-chief-jonathan-akinremi-olawole\/","title":{"rendered":"ODEBEYI, Chief Jonathan Akinremi Olawole .  ."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, businessman, politician, born March 11, 1923, Ipaja, Ikeja, Lagos State; married Gladys Adebisi Cole 1954, one son, four daughters; Education: St Andrew&#8217;s School, Ipaja, 1928-36, Church Missionary Society Grammar School, Lagos, 1937-41, Fourah Bay College, Freetown, 1944-47, University of London, England, 1951-52; Career: Appointed Clerk, Judicial Depart ment; Teacher, Abeokuta Grammar School; Principal, Fgbado College, Ilaro, 1951-56; elected Action Group member, defunct Westem House of Assembly, 1951; Minister of Education, defunct Western Region, 1956; Minister of Finance, Western Nigeria, 1956- 62; member, Western Regional Government Delegation, Nigerian (Independence) Con stitutional Conference, London, 1959; Leader, defunct Western House of Assem bly, 1960; Leader, Parliamentary Delegation (Western Region) to Eight European Nations, 1961; Proprietor and Headmaster, Eyinni High School, Ibadan, 1962-74; Chairman, Board of Directors, CSS Bookshops Limited, 1967; Proprietor and Managing Director, TOPIC (an Engineering Construction Com pany), 1974; Senator ofthe Federal Repub lic of Nigeria,- 1979-83; member, Board of Directors, Bookshop House; member,Lagos DiocesanSynod, 1951-75; PoliticalParties: member, defunct Action Group Party, 1951- 66; General Secretary, Action Group, defunct Western Region; member and Chairman, Iboro\/lbese\/Sunwa Constituency, Unity Party of Nigeria(UPN); UPN Senate Leader, 1979- 83; co-ordinator, Egbado North Local Gov ernment Area; member, Alliance for Democ racy (AD), 1998-Date; Traditional Titles: Apena of Iboro, 1951; Apesin of Ibeshe, 1958; Basorun of Aiyetoro, 1960; Apesin of Igbogila, 1960; Odofin of Ilaro, 1972;<br \/>\nHobbies: music, game-hunting; Official Ad dress: P.O. Box 1274, Ibadan, Oyo State; Home: 23, Adetokunbo Ademola Road,New Reservation, Ibadan, Oyo State; Telephone: 022-310-984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7915","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7915","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}