{"id":10734,"date":"2017-02-16T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10734"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T09:59:41","slug":"okoloagu-brig-gen-josef-okonkwo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okoloagu-brig-gen-josef-okonkwo\/","title":{"rendered":"OKOLOAGU, Maj. Gen. Josef Okonkwo (Rtd)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B, B.L, M.Sc; military officer rid;lawyer,administrator, b: July 26,1949; p: Ukehe; Ht: Ukehe; Iga:Egbo- Etiti; so: Enugu; m: Married with Children;ed: St. Peter&#8217;s Primary School, Ukehe, 1956-62; Igbo-Etiti Grammar School (now Adada River), 1963-67; Nigerian Defense Academy, Kaduna, 1971-73; Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Jaji; YOC-Infantry, 1976; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1977-78; The Nigerian Law School, Lagos,1981-82;The Commandand Staff College, Jaji. 1983-84;The Law of War Course, San Remo, Italy, 1984; The Judge Advocate General, Advanced Officers&#8217; Course, United States of America, U.S Army, Charlottes VUle,.Virginia, 1985-86; Qualified as a Military judge, presiding over Court Martial Proceedings; directing Staff, The Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1986-90;Tlte National Defence College, NDC, Islamabad, Pakistan. 1999-2000; CAREER: Platoon Commander, Defence Company HQ, Infantry Div.,Nigerian Army, 1973-74; Adjunctant defunct 45 Staff CaptainA 1102 Infantry Brigade, N.A, PortHarcourt, 1975-76; Staff Captain, defunct4 Infantry Div., N.A., Lagos, 1976-77; Legal adviser, 82 Div., N.A, Enugu, 1982-83: Legal Adviser, 3rd Armoured Div.,N.A Ray Field, Jos, 1984-85; Directing Staff, Command&#038; StaffCollege, Jaji, 1986-90; Commanding Officer, 21 Mechanized Infantry Battalion, N.A, Minna,1990-91;Commanding Officer, NIBAT-6,81, BN. NA ECOMOG, Liberia, 1991-92; General Staff Officer, Grade 1, Policy Matters, Ministry of Defense, Army Headquarters, Lagos, 1994; Colonel, Admin and HeadquartersHQ I Mechanized Div. Nigerian Army, Kaduna, 1994-96;Colonel Coordinating,Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command, TRADOC, Nigerian Army, Minna, 19%-99; Retired fromthe NigerianArmy,2002: Member, KadunaZone ofthe Miscellaneous Offenses Tribunalunderthe Chairmanship of JusticeTaminu Zailaru 1995- 99;mm: Miscellaneous OffencesTribunal,LagosZone, UnderJustice Muri Okumola, 1986; Chief Defense Counsel. 1990 Coup d&#8217;etat Plot Retrials&#8217; Chief DefenseCounsel, 1995 PhantomCoup Trials; Lead Defense Counsel, 1997 Coup Plot Trials; off: Plot 773, Umu-Ololoagu Street OffUmoji Street Independence Layout, Enugu; tel; 234-042-452980, 08033341625, 08042155298,090-410957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10734","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10734","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}