{"id":8505,"date":"2017-01-20T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8505"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:00:31","slug":"fagbola-chief-theophilus-agboola","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/fagbola-chief-theophilus-agboola\/","title":{"rendered":"FAGBOLA, (Chief) Theophilus Agboola"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> police officer, barrister-at- Law, retired Deputy Inspector-Gene ral of Police; Born at Gerti, Benue State, January 29, 1925; Education: St. Gregory&#8217;s College Lagos, Univer sity of London \u2014graduated LL.B., 1954 and called to the Bar (Lincoln&#8217;s Inn), 1955; started career as Admini strative Officer Class IV in Western Region Public Service, 1955; became Assistant District Officer (ADO) and later Trade Officer in London; served as Students Officer and official Secretary to the Commissioner; pro moted Administrative Officer Class I, March 1962, and was later seconded to the University of Ife as Acting Registrar; was again seconded to the Nigeria Police as Supernumerary Assistant Commissioner, 1962; appo inted substantive ACP, March 1963; promoted Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), October 1964 and Commissioner of Police, July 1965; appointed Assistant Inspector-Gene ral, May 1967 and promoted Deputy Inspector-General, (DIG), December, 1967-75; awarded the Nigeria Police Medal for meritorious service, 1965; holds the traditional title of Lokiran of llesha; Married and has eight children; Address: llesha, Oyo State; Hobby: swimming, table tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,722,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8505","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-police","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8505","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\/8505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}