{"id":8888,"date":"2017-01-26T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8888"},"modified":"2017-09-07T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:38:57","slug":"fashola-babatunde-raji-san","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/fashola-babatunde-raji-san\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashola, Babatunde Raji, SAN"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> L.L.B.; B.L.; Nigerian Legal Practitioner, Politician, Administrator, Executive Governor, Lagos State; Date of Birth: June 28, 1963; Birth Place: Lagos Island: Home Town: Isalegangan, Lagos Island Local Government Area: State of Origin: Lagos; Spouse&#8217;s Name: Abimbola Emnanuela Fashola; has children; Education: Sunny Fields Primary School, Adelabu, Surulere, Lagos; Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, Lagos; Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos; University of Benin, Benin City, 1987; Nigeria Law School, 1987-88;Career: Counsel (NYSC), Dr. G.I.S. Omonuwa &#038; Co.; Litigator, Sofunde Osakwe, Ogundipe &#038; Belgore, Lagos, 1990- 93; Partner, K.O. Tinubu &#038; Co., Lagos; Managing Partner\/Lead Counsel, K.O. Tinubu &#038; Co., 1994- 2002; Chief of Staff to Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, 2002-06; Commissioner, Government of Lagos State, 2006; Executive Governor, Lagos State, since 2007, Member: Panel of Enquiry into Allocation of Houses on the Mobolaji Johnson Scheme, Lekki, 2000; Lagos State Tenders Board, 2002-06; State Executive Council, 2002-06; State Treasury Board, 2002-06; State Security Council, 2006-09; Chairman: Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of Assets Distribution among Local Governments; Member: Nigerian Bar Association (NBA); International Bar Association (IBA); Associate: Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria: Notary Public of the Supreme Court of Nigeria; Fellow: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators: Awards: Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Benin Ahmni Association; Lagos State Public Service Club Platinum Award; Governor of the Year 2007 by Leadership Newspaper, Abuja; Justice Oputa Exceptional Youth Award for Infrastructure I Development, 2009; Man of the Year2009 Award, by The Sun Newspapers, 2010; Honor: Grand Patron. Association of Nigerian Theatre Practitioners, Lagos; Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Social Club: Eko Club, Island Club, Ikoyi Club, Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Eagle Club, Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos Country Club, Ikeja; Present Address: Office of the Executive Governor of Lagos Stale. Oval Building, Round House, The Secretariat, Obafemi Awolowo Way, Alausa. P.M.B. 21436, Ikeja, Lagos; Tel: 01-4979030-9; Website: www,lagosstate.gov.ng <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8889,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8888","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8888","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\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}