{"id":11804,"date":"2017-02-22T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11804"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:19:57","slug":"olajide-brigadier-general-samuel-agboola-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olajide-brigadier-general-samuel-agboola-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"OLAJIDE, Brig-Gen Samuel Agboola (rtd);"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired army officer; b: August 20, 1943; so: Kwara; EDUCATION: St Luke&#8217;s Primary School, Obbo-Ayegunle, 1948-55; Offa Grammar School, Offa. 1956-60; Nigerian Military Training School, Kaduna, 1962; Indian Military Academy, Diru-Dun, India, 1963; Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1975; National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru-Jos, 1983. CAREER: Federal Department of Statistics, Kaduna, 1961; Northern Nigeria Audit Department, Kaduna, 1962; Troop Commander, Pay Officers Field Battery Artillery, Kaduna, 1964-65; Section Commander, 1965; Troop Leader, 1965; Battery Captain, 1 Field Artillery Battery, 1967; Acting Inspector, Artillery Headquarters, Lagos, 1968-70; Commander, 2 Artillery Regiment, Benin, 1970-71; Commander, I Division Artillery, Kaduna, 1974-78; Commander, 2 Artillery Brigade, Ibadan, 1976-80; Commander, 4 Artillery Brigade, Lagos and Abeokuta, 1980-83; appointed Ambassador to Chad Republic, 1984-87; Ambassador to Poland, 1987-88; Lieutenant, 1966-68; promoted Captain, 1968-70; Major, 1970-72; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1972-75; Colonel, 1975-83; Brigadier-General 1983-86; retired 1986. h: Conferred with Forces Service Star (fss); recipient Black Belt Judo; Blue Belt-Karate, hob: listening to music, reading and gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11804","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11804","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\/11804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}