{"id":15545,"date":"2017-03-14T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15545"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:53:15","slug":"malu-lt-general-samuel-victor-leo-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/malu-lt-general-samuel-victor-leo-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"MALU, Lt-Gen Samuel Victor Leo (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>soldier, born January 15, 1947, Tongov, Benue State; married Esther Mbarumun Malu, three sons, one daughter; Education: Sankera Primary School, 1955- 58; Vendeikya Primary School, 1959-61; Government Secondary School, Katsina-Ala, 1962-66; Federal Government College, Sokoto, 1967; Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1969-70; Command and Staff Col lege, Jaji; National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos; Career: Ap pointed Battalion Second-in-Command, 92 battalion, 1970;commandingofficer,92 bat talion, 1970; Second-in-Command, Deputy Commandant, 3rd Division Infantry School, 1971-72; Commanding Officer, 3rd Infan try Battalion, 1973-74; Chief Instructor, Ni gerian Military School,Zaria, 1974-76; Com mandingOfficer 1, Infantry Battalion, Nige rian Army, 1976-77; Commandant, 2nd Di vision School of Infantry, 1978-80; General Staff Officer\/Training, Army Headquarters, 1981-83; Commander, 2 Amphibious Bri gade, Nigerian Army, 1984-86; Com mander, 7 Mechanised Brigade, 1986; DeputyCommandant,Depot,NigerianArmy, 1987-89; Colonel Administration and Quar tering, 1 Mechanized Division, Nigerian Army, 1987-89; Commander, Command Army Records, 1990; Commander, 3 Motorised Brigade, Nigeria Army, 1991;Ni gerian Contingent, Commander\/Chief of Staff and Director of Operations, ECOMOG, Liberia, 1992-93; Directing Staff, National War College, 1993; General Officer, Com manding, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, 1994- 96; Force Field Commander, ECOMOG, Liberia, 1996-98; Chairman, Special Mili tary Tribunal, (tryingcoup suspects,Diyaand others), 1998;Commander, Lagos Garrison, 1998-99; Chief of Army Staff, 1999-date; passed Staff College; promoted Lieutenant General, 2000; member, Nigerian Institute; fellow, WarCollege; recipient, Commander ofthe Federal Republic Medal; Distinguished Service Star; Presidential Medal of Honour, Distinguished ServiceOrder(DSO)- Repub lic of Liberia, 1999; Awards: Holder, De fence Service Medal, National Service Medal, Republic Service Medal, Silver Ser vice Medal, Force Service Star, Meritorious Service Star (Seven Medals in the whole); Publication: Super Power Intervention in Third World: Strategic Lessons for Nigeria; Hobbies: comedies, films; Official Address: Office ofthe ChiefofArmy Staff, Headquar ters, Nigerian Army, Ministry of Defence, Lagos, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-263- 1969, 263-4044; Home: Flag Staff House, Marina, Lagos State. Telephone: 01-263- 7719,263-5662,263-5591.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15545","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15545","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15545"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}