{"id":8591,"date":"2017-01-23T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8591"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:06:39","slug":"fajemirokun-chief-dr-henry-oloyede","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/fajemirokun-chief-dr-henry-oloyede\/","title":{"rendered":"FAJEMIROKUN, Chief, (Dr) Henry Oloyede"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> , soldier, trade unionist, businessman, director of companies, philanthropist, chairman and mana ging director of Henry Stephens &#038; Sons Group of Companies, ex- President Lagos Chamber of Com merce and Industry, President Nige rian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines &#038; Agri culture, President of Federation of West African Chambers of Commer ce, Vice-President of the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce; Born at lle-Oluji, Ondo State, July 14 1926; Education: St.. Peters&#8217; School, lle-Oluji, 1932- 36; St. Luke&#8217;s School, Oke-lgbo, 193740; CMS Grammar School 194142, Ondo Boys&#8217; High School, Ondo, 194244; enlisted in old Royal West African Frontiers Force, April 1944; posted to India to join 82nd West African Division, 1945; served at GHQ, 2nd Echelon Jhansi, United Provinces India; joined the P &#038; T Department, 1947, passed Cambridge School Certificate, December 1948; elected President of the P &#038; T Ex-service Men&#8217;s Union, 1948, Pre sident of P &#038; T Clerical and Allied Workers Union, 1952; Vice President of the All Nigeria Trade Union Federation, 1956; President-General of the Nigeria Civil Service Union, 1957-68, formed his own company &#8211; Henry Stephens &#038; Sons Ltd., with many subsidiaries director of many companies, served on many boards and Commissions; President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce &#038; Industry, 1970, Nigerian Association of Cham bers of Commerce, Industry and Mines, March 1972; first President, Federation of West African Cham bers of Commerce at Freetown, November 1972; Vice-President, Federation of Cbmmonwealth Chambers of Commerce, July 1974; contriutes to many philanthropic and social activities; conferred with chief taincy titles of Yegbata of lle- Oluji, December 28, 1968, Asiwaju of Oke-lgbo, December 27, 1971, Lijoka of the Ondos, April 23, 1973 and High Chief Orunto of Ifewara, February 3, 1974; awarded Hon. D.Sc. (Business Administration) by the University of Ife, October 14, 1972; Married and has many children; Address. Henry-Stephens &#038; Sons Ltd., P.O.Box 2480, Lagos, Phone: 55090-2; Hobby: swimming, dancing, lawn tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8591","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8591","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\/8591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}