{"id":16944,"date":"2017-03-22T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T11:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16944"},"modified":"2017-05-24T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:20:28","slug":"princewill-navy-captain-eben-ibim-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/princewill-navy-captain-eben-ibim-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"PRINCEWILL, Navy Captain Eben Ibim (rtd)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired naval officer, born in 1946, Buguma, Degema, Riv ers State; married Daba Jack 1987, oneson, one daughter; Education: St Saviour&#8217;s Af rican School, Buguma, 1952-60, Kalahari National College, Buguma, 1961-64, Ascen sion High School, Eleme, 1964-66, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1968-70, Sub- Lieutenant Technical Course, India, 1971-72, Long Specialist Gunnery Course, India, 1975-76, National Defence University, Washington DC, USA, Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1981-82; Career: Appointed Accounts Clerk, Department of Antiquities, Federal Ministry of Education, 1967; Stores Keeper, Ford Foundation, Lagos, 1967-68 joined the Nigerian Navy, as Cadet, 1968 promoted acting Sub-Lieutenant, NN, 1971 Flag-Lieutenant (Aide -de-Camp) to the Chief of Naval Staff, 1973-75; promoted Lieutenant and appointed Midshipman Train ing Officer, NNS, Otobo, 1975;. Squadron Commander, Patrol Squadron and Com mander Patrol Squadron and Commanding Officer, NNS Hadeija and later Gunnery Of ficer, NNS Otobo, 1975-77; appointed Staff Officer Training, Naval headquarters and promoted Lieutenant Commander, 1977-79; StaffOfficer, Naval Headquarters, 1979; Flo tilla Operations Officer, and OPS (opera tions) Officer, 1979-82; Staff Officer 1, Personnel and Training, General Headquar ters, Lagos; Commanding Officer, NNS Anansa, Calabar, and member, Executive Council, Cross River State; Commander, Pa trol 4, and Commanding Officer, NNS Damisa, 1983-86; appointed Military Gov ernor, Cross River State, 1986; promoted Captain, NN, 1988; passed Staff College, 1982; Hobbies: lawn tennis, swimming, walking, jogging, music, dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16944","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16944","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16944"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}