{"id":10469,"date":"2017-02-13T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10469"},"modified":"2017-04-21T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:26:06","slug":"garba-colonel-idris","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/garba-colonel-idris\/","title":{"rendered":"GARBA, Colonel Idris"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>soldier, born July 6, 1947, Gulu-Lapai, Niger State; married Fatima Bose 1969, two sons, three daughters; Educa tion: Gulu-Lapia Primary School, 1954-62; Nigerian Military School, Zaria, 1963-67; Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1968; Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1978-79; Bat tery Commander, 1969-72; Chief Instructor, School of Artillery, Kaduna, 1973-75; Regiment Commander, 1976-82; Company Commander, United Nations Peace-Keeping Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), 1980; Deputy Defence Ad viser, Nigerian Embassy, Moscow, USSR, 1983-86; Commander, Short Service Wing, NDA, Kaduna, 1986-87; appointed Military Governor, Benue State, December 1987-88; Military Governor, Kano State, since July 1988 Passed Staff College (PSC), 1979; National Decorations: Defence Medals, Forces Service Star (FSS); Foreign Decorations: United Na tions Peace-Keeping Medal; Hobbies: squash, swimming, reading; Official and Home Ad dress: Government House, PMB 3080, Kano, Kano State; Telephone: (064) 600380.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10469","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10469","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\/10469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}