{"id":11093,"date":"2017-02-20T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11093"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:18:11","slug":"11093-2","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/11093-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OKPERE, Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Ebehijele .  ."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>air-force pilot, administrator, born September 28, 1943, Uromi, Bendel State; married Veronica Isibor 1968, one son, three daughters; Education: Government Primary School, Uromi, Ishan Grammar School, Uromi, Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1979, Air War College, Air University, Max well Air Force Base, Alabama, USA, 1983-84; one-time school teacher; served in the then Federal Ministry of Statistics; joined the Nigerian Air Force as Cadet Officer, 1963; Held several key appointments at the Squadron and Wing levels, Nigeria Air Force. 1967-79; Director of Operations, Air Force Headquarters, Lagos, 1979-83; member. Governing Council, University of Benin. Benin City, 1979-82; Director, Air Faculty, Command and Staff College, -Jaji. 1984-86; appointed Managing Director, Nigeria Air ways Limited, 1986-87; Minister of Aviation, December 1987-February 1989; Air Officer Commanding, Training Command\\ Nigerian Air Force, Kaduna, since February 1989; Pass ed Staff College (PSC), 1979; Award: &#8216;Development of Airline Marketing&#8217; award, by Konsult servc Limited, January 1989; Hobbies: reading, hunting, travelling; Official Address: Training Command, Nigeria Air Force Kaduna. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11093","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11093","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\/11093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}