{"id":17135,"date":"2017-03-23T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17135"},"modified":"2017-05-30T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:09:06","slug":"soroh-rear-admiral-nelson-bossman","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/soroh-rear-admiral-nelson-bossman\/","title":{"rendered":"SOROH, Rear Admiral Nelson Bossman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> OFR, MFR; DC, FSS; ; retired naval officer, businessman, administrator; b:February 15, 1928; p: Nsukka; hUTungbo; Iga: Sagbama; so: Bayelsa; m: Eti dora Fani, December 20, 1951; nc: Eight s, Eight d; ed: Salvation Army Central School, Lagos, l938-44;cosmopolitan Institute , Lagos, 1944-46; Pri vate Studies for Senior Cambridge Certificate, 1946-49; Wolcscy Hall College by correspondent, 1947-48; College of Navigation, Liver pool, College of Tec\\\\no\\ogy, \\955-56; Royal Navy Sea Training , 1958-59, 1962-63; Imperial Defence College, London, 1968; cr: Officer in various palm line ships, 1957-58; Sub-Lieutenant ,Royal Nigerian Navy, 1958; Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer Commanding N.N.S Kaduna, Nigeria First Flag ship, 1960; Snr. Officer East Patrol and Commanding Officer N.N.S Challenger, 1961; promoted Com mander and appointed Commanding Officer, N.N.S Ogoja, Hol land,1963; Commanding Officer, N.N.S Nigeria Flagship, 1964-67; promoted Captain and appointed Captain commanding Nigerian Flo tilla, Commanding Officer, N.N.S Nigera, 1966-67; Chief of Staff, Naval Headquarters, 1967, Captain N.N.S Beecroft and Naval Of ficer in Charge of Lagos command,1969; promoted Rear Admiral and appointed Flag Officer Commanding Western Naval Command, 1971; Deputy chief of Naval Staff, 1971; chief of Naval Staff, 1973; Retired from active Naval Service, 1975; Private Business since 1976; Special Adviser , Security .matters to the Rivers State Government 1979-83; mm. Imperial Defence College, 1968; h: first Black African to Sail a Ship from Europe to Africa; First Nigerian to serve in the Royal Navy as an Officer; First Balck African to command Warships; mm. Order of the Federal Republic, 1965;Officcr of the Order of the Re public, 1980; fli. Grand Commander; tt: Subolo kekereowei of Tungbo; Abadeala of Kabuowei Kingdom; hob: photography; res: 11, Bendel Close, Off Bishop Aboyade Cole Street, Victoria Island,Lagos; tel: 01- 2621471 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,209,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17135","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-business-person","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17135","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\/17135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}