{"id":16611,"date":"2017-03-20T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16611"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:19:29","slug":"monde-umo-navy-cdr-matthew","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/monde-umo-navy-cdr-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDE-UMO, Navy Cdr Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Naval Officer, former Chairman, Oruk Anam Local Gov!. Area; LGA: Oruk Anam; Born: Jan 24, 1946; Pa: Ete Matthew Umo (d) and Madam Jessie M Umo Married to Mrs Imoh Monde-Umo; Children: Aniekan (15), ldongesit (12), Ekpedeme ( 10), Ukeme (8), Obot (3); Education: Lagos City College, Yaba; 1962-66, WASC; Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1968-69, NDACE; Univ of Lagos, 1987-92, B.Sc Bus Admin; Other Qualifications: SubLieutenant Technical Course (India), 197 1; Long Course Specification in Navigation (Long N, India), 1976; Staff Course (Psc), Jaji, 1981; Career and Wor&#8221; History: Joi ned the Nigerian Navy as a Cadet, 1968 ; Retired from active naval service in 1984 as commander (NN) with fu ll pension; First Lieutenant, Nigerian Naval Ship (NNS), Makurdi, 1974; Commanding Officer, Nigerian Naval Ship (NNS) and Task Force Commander, FESTAC, 1977 (Eastern Nava l Command); Executive Officer, Nigerian Naval Ship (NNS) RUWA Y ARO, 1977; Staff Officer Operation, Naval Headq uarters, 1979; Director, Naval Operat ions, Naval Headquarters, 1979; Commanding officer, Nigerian Naval Ship (NNS) Otobo, 1980; Base Commander, Nig Naval College, Onne, Port Harcourt, 1982; Commander, N ig Naval Ship (NNS) Eriomi, 1983; Staff Officer. Admin istrat ion, Western Naval Command Headquarters, 1983 ; Chairmanl Managing Director. MA TIS MONELl and Company Ltd, up to 1994; Chairman, Caretaker Committee, Oruk Anam Local Govt. Area, 1994-96; Career Related Activitics\/ Responsibilities: Sailing and photography; Special Work Related Achievements: Sail ed across the eq uator twice with in one month in 1976 from West Afri can Coast to Trinidad and Tobago via Brazil; Civic and Political Activities: Director, Cross River State Newspapers Corporat ion Ltd, Ca labar, 1986; Chairman, Board of Directors, Sunshine Batteries Ltd, Ikot Ekpene, 1988; Professional Memberships: Mem., Roya l In st of Nav igat ion, (MRIN), Londo n, 1977; Religious Affiliation: Chri st ian; Hobby: Football ing; Home: c\/o034 Alara Street, Onike, P.O. Box 70 1, Yaba, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2417,484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16611","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-naval-officer","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16611","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\/16611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16611"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}