{"id":17880,"date":"2017-03-28T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17880"},"modified":"2017-10-30T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:37:29","slug":"rotimi-brigadier-oluwole-christopher-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/rotimi-brigadier-oluwole-christopher-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"ROTIMI, Brigadier Oluwole Christopher (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CON, B.A; soldier, businessman; b: February 20,1935; ht:Abeokuta, so:Ogun; married, has children, ed: Methodist School, Olowo-gbowo,Ugos; King&#8217;s College, Ugos; Univer-sity oflbadan, 1957-60; enlisted inthe Nigerian Army, September I960; Mons Officer Cadets School, UK, I960, cr: Commissioned, May l961;Teacher, Ibadan Grammar School, 1957; Administrative Officer, defunct Western CivilService, 1960; Platoon Com-mander, 5th Battalion, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, 1961; Instructor, Junior non-commissioned Of-ficers, 5th Battalion, Nigerian Army, Kaduna; served in the United Nations Peace- Keeping. Force, Congo, 1961-62; Captain, 1962; Major, 1963; Deputy Quarter-master-Gencral, Nigerian Army Headquarters, Ugos, l966;Secondin-Command to I Battalion, NigerianArmy, Enugu, 1966; Sta-tion Commander, Military Station, Benin, 1966; Quartermaster^General, Army Headquarters, Ugos, 1966-69; Commander, Ibadan Organisation, 1969-70; gov. defunct Western State, 1971 -75; Lieutenant-Colonel; later Colonel and Brigadier, retired from the Army, 1975; ehgag-ed in private business, since 1975; amb. ofNigeriatotheUnited Stateof America, till February 2009; ch: Presidential InsuranceCo. Ltd.,Commission on Federal and Landed Property, June 1999; nh: Commander ofthe Order ofthe Niger, 2001; bob: lawn tennis, squash, cricket, horse-riding, res: 57\/640A, Orita, Challenge, Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,29],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17880","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-menus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17880","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\/17880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}