{"id":8770,"date":"2024-04-19T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8770"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:06:37","slug":"elumelu-tony","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/elumelu-tony\/","title":{"rendered":"ELUMELU, Tony (MFR) (CON)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Elumelu worked in the Nigerian veteran Bank, Union Bank as a Youth Corp member during his National Youth Service Corps in 1985, before starting his career as a salesman.<br \/>\nHe came into the limelight in 1997 when he led a small group of investors to take over a small, floundering commercial bank in Lagos. He turned it profitable within a few years and in 2005 he merged it with the United Bank for Africa.<br \/>\nTony became a bank chief executive at the age of 34, one of the youngest in the industry at that time. Upon retiring in 2010 from the United Bank for Africa after the Central Bank of Nigeria\u2019s directives limiting bank chiefs to 10 years, he founded Heirs Holdings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27035,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2404,2403,209,2409,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8770","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-banker","category-economist","category-business-person","category-philanthropist","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8770","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\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23328,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8770\/revisions\/23328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}