{"id":8244,"date":"2017-01-18T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T08:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8244"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:20:17","slug":"odunmbaku-dr-james-omolaja","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/odunmbaku-dr-james-omolaja\/","title":{"rendered":"ODUNMBAKU, Dr.James Omolaja"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JP, FPA, MPIC;politician,businessman; b: September 4,1946; Education: African Church Primary School, 1985; African Church Modern School, Abeokuta,1955-64; en Staff, Millet Nig. Ltd, 1966- 69; Staff rose to the position of Production Supervisor, Dunlop Nig. Ltd; Personal Adviser to ch., Nigerian Maritime Services (then a Subsidiary of Henry Stephen Group); Founder, Bakujo farm &#038; Company Ltd; Chancellor, Alexandra Bible University, Gen. Overseer, Canadian Diocese, Celestial Church of Christ Ontario, Canada; f: Institute of Public Admin of Nigeria; Certified Institutes of Public Administration &#038; Management 2003; f\/Grand Patron, Chartered Institute of Corporate Management 2004; Alexandra Bible College, Ikeja Lagos, 2005;Patron, The Bible Society of Nigeria;<br \/>\nHonorary Degree: Dr.of Divinity (Honoris Causa) Indiana Christian University, 2000;h: Grand Patron, Jerusalem Pilgrims Association; Life Patron, Man &#8216;O&#8217; War, Lagos Chapter, 2008;Special Award, Ikeja Local Government 1992; Community Leadership Award,Lagos State, 1992; Gold Award in Environmental Sanitation&#038;Allied Service,2000; Business Commendation Award, Inside Businessmen Magazine in Conjunction with NTA 2001; Millennium Leadership Award, Olowogbowo Fancy Carnival Association, 2002; Award of Excellence, the Certified Marketing Communication Institute of Nig., 2003;Tlte Africa Visitors Leadership Gold Award, Africa Gold, 2003; Merit Award for Excellence, Africa Int. News Magazine, 2003; Environmentalist of the Year 2003, Environmental Development Nig. Company, 2003;International Communication Publication of Africa,2004;Gold Award-in a-Continental Media Networks, 2004; Leadership Performance Award,The Chartered Institute of Corporate Management etc; pp: mem,Unity Party of Nigeria, 1978-83; Social Democratic Party, SDP, 1993; Special Adviser, Grass-root Mobilization, &#8216;HOPE 93&#8217;; Alliance for Democracy, AD; mem Central Working Committee, 1998-06; State ch., BATCO now &#8220;The Mandate Group&#8221;, since 1998; Dir. of Mobilization, Independent Campaign Organization, ICG, 2003; Action Congress, 2007; ch., Campaign &#038; Mobilization Committees; ch., Action Congress West Senatorial District Lagos State, 2007; off: c\/o Bible Society of Nigeria or The Chancellor,Alexandra Bible University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8244","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\/8244","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\/8244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}