{"id":13308,"date":"2017-03-02T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13308"},"modified":"2017-11-01T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:40:06","slug":"koshoni-vice-admiral-patrick-seubo-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/koshoni-vice-admiral-patrick-seubo-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"KOSHONI, Vice-Admiral Patrick Seubo (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCON, dss, gss, fss; retired naval officer, businessman; b: April 17, 1943; p: Lagos; married, has children, ed: Holy Cross Primary School, Ugos, 1949- 55; St Finbarr&#8217;s College, Ugos, 1956-61; National Defence Training Academy, India, 1962-64; Sub-Technical Course, 1966-67; Torpedo Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialisation Course, 1969-70; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London 1972; National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru and Senior International Resource Management Course, Monterrey, USA, 1982. cr: Enlisted in the Nigerian Navy, 1962 and commissioned Sub-Lieutenant, 1964; held several Staff and Command posts including, Commanding Officer, NNS, Ibadan, NNS, Otobo, NNS, Olokun, NNS, Nigeria; Chief Staff Officer, Western Naval Command; Flag Officer, Commanding Eastern Naval Command; acting Military Governor, Cross River State, 1977 and mem. of the State&#8217;s Executive Council, 1977-78; ag. Naval Officer Commanding, Nigerian Naval Flotilla; acting Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command; First Captain, Nigerian Naval College, 1979-81; dir: Personnel and Training, Defence Headquarters (now Joint Headquarters), Ministry of Defence, Lagos, 1981-84; Federal min. Health, 1984, Transport and Aviation, 1984-85; Employment, Ubour and Productivity, 1985-86; Chief of Naval Staff and mem. Armed Forces Ruling Council, 1986; Vice-Admiral, 1987; retired voluntarily from the Nigerian Navy; Passed Staff College, National Institute, 1982; former Vice-Chairman Nigerian Table Tennis Association; former ch: Amateur Weight Lifting Association of Nigeria; mm: Nigerian Olympic Association, Nigerian Delegation to the World Military Sports Council Convention, Amboise, France, Military Delegation to the Commonwealth Defence Science Organisation Seminar, New Delhi, India, nh: Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, 1992. Decorations: Defence Service Star, General Service Star, Republic Medal, National Service Medal, Forces Service Star, hob: reading, movies, res: 7B Etim Inyang Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos, tel: 01-2622525, 2618965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13308","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13308","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}