{"id":13477,"date":"2017-03-02T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13477"},"modified":"2017-04-19T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:02:11","slug":"igbe-sam-odighi-uginviwe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/igbe-sam-odighi-uginviwe\/","title":{"rendered":"IGBE, Sam Odighi Uginviwe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officer, acting Commissioner of Poli ce, Anambra State; Born on Septem ber 13, 1931 at Benin City; Educa tion: obtained First School Leaving Certificate at St. Peter&#8217;s CMS Benin City; Edo College, Benin City and obtained Combridge School Certificate; St. Andrew&#8217;s College, Oyo &#8211; Teachers&#8217; certificate, Grade II; G.C.E. &#8216;A&#8217; Level; employed as third class clerk, 1952 &#8211; 1954, taught 1954-65 joined the Police Force as a Cadet Sub-Inspector in 1956; worked in all sections of the Force in Lagos, including a three year spell as St. John&#8217;s Headquarters Officer, and an eight year spell in Police College, Ikeja, ending up there as a commandant; posted to Akure in February, 1976as Deputy Commissioner of Police and thence to Enugu in May 1976 as Commis sionerofPolice;awarded PoliceLong Service Medal, National Medal, Nigerian Independence Medal, St. John&#8217;s Long Service Medal, General Service Medal, Republic Medal; Offi cer Brother of St. John, Married and has children; Address (Home): 23 Park Avenue, Enugu; (Office) Police Headquarters, Enugu, Anambra Hobby: keen sports organiser and active lawn tennis and Billiards player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[722],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13477","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-police"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13477","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13477"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}