{"id":13215,"date":"2017-03-02T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13215"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:53:50","slug":"olurin-brigadier-general-adetunji-idowu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olurin-brigadier-general-adetunji-idowu\/","title":{"rendered":"OLURIN, Brig Gen Adetunji Idowu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired soldier, born Decemleer 3, 1944, Ilaro, Ogun State; married Kehinde Oyeleye 1975, two sons; Education: Christ Church School, Ilaro, 1951-54, St Paul&#8217;s School, Odo-Ona, Ibadan, 1955-57, Local Government Authority Modern School, 1958,Egbado College, Ilaro, 1959-64,Technical College(nowThe Polytechnic), Ibadan, 1966, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1967-70, School of Infantry, Quetta, Pakistan, 1973, Army Command and Staff Col lege, Jaji, 1977-78, National Institute for Policyand StrategicStudies, Kuru, near Jos, 1989; Career: Appointed Battalion Com mander, 1970-71; Brigade Major, 1972-74; Instructor, Nigerian Defence Academy, Ka duna, 1974; Deputy Defence Adviser, Nigerian High Commission, India, 1975-77; General Staff Officer I, Operations, ArmyHead quarters, Lagos, 1980-82; Colonel General Staff, Nigerian School of Infantry, 1982; Deputy Commandant, Nigerian Army School of Infantry, 1983-84; Commander, I Mechanised Infantry Brigade, 1984-85; ap pointed Military Governor, OyoState, 1985- 88; Director of Logistics, Nigerian Army Headquarters, Lagos, August 1988 &#8211; Janu ary 1989; Passed StaffCollege (PSC), 1978; National Decoration: Forces Service Star (1155); Foreign Decoration: United Nations Peace Medal (UNIFIL), 1979; Hobbies: reading, squash, golf, flying; Official and Home Address: Nigerian Army Headquarters, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13215","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13215","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\/13215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}