{"id":17302,"date":"2017-03-23T18:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17302"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:34:26","slug":"muktar-major-general-abdullahi-sarki-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/muktar-major-general-abdullahi-sarki-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"MUKHTAR, Maj-Gen Abdullahi Sarki (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL B BL psc fss; lawyer, retired soldier; b: July 5, 1949; p: Kano City; &#8216;so: KaW m: Binta Babba-Dan&#8217; Agundi 1980, has children, ed: Kofar Kudu Primary School, Kano, 1957-60; Gwale Senior Primary School, Kano,1961-62; Provincial Secondary School (now Rumfa College), Kano, 1963-67; Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1968-71; cr: Commissioned Second-Lieutenant, Nigerian Army, 1971 and attended various courses including Commanders Course, Quetta, Pakistan, Advanced Criminal Investigation Management Course, USA;Military Police School, USA; Advance Physical Security Course, USA, 1976- 77; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1977-80; Nigerian Uw School, Ugos, 1980-81; Command and StaffCollege, Jaji, 1982-83; served in 19 Infantry Battalion, ag. Commander, 170 Battalion, Nigeria Army Omoku, 1971-73; promoted Lieutenant, NA, 1971, andCaptain. NA, 1973; ag. Commanding Officer, 4 Guards Battalion, NA, 1974-75; Brigade Major, Headquarters, Brigade of Guards, NA, 1975-76;Colonel General Staff, Headquarters, Military Police, NA; Colonel, Administration and Quartering Headquarters, Military Police, NA; promoted Major, NA, 1978; Commander, Special Investigation Bureau, NA, 1981-82; Lieutenant Colonel, NA, 1983; Cadets Brigade Commander, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1984-87; promoted Colonel, NA, 1987; first Military Governor, (newly created) Katsina State, 1987-88; Military Governor, Kaduna State, 1988; G.O.C I Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna; Passed Staff College (psc), 1983; Nigeria ambassador to Russia November 1999. nd: Defence Medal, Republic Medal, Forces Service Star (fss), 1986; Silver Jubilee Medal, 1987. hob: reading, horse-riding, swimming, movies, off: 1st Mechanised Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Kaduna State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17302","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17302","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22779,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17302\/revisions\/22779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17302"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}