{"id":18275,"date":"2017-03-29T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18275"},"modified":"2020-01-14T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:16:19","slug":"yaradua-major-general-shehu-musa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/yaradua-major-general-shehu-musa\/","title":{"rendered":"YAR&#8217;ADUA, Maj-Gen. Shehu Musa (Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired soldier, born March 5, 1943, Katsina, Katsina State; married, has children;Education: Government Secondary School, Katsina, Nigerian Military Training College, Zaria, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England, Command and Staff College, UK; Platoon Commander, 1964-65; Battalion Adjutant, 1965-66; CompanyCommander andlater Assis tant Adjutant-General, 2nd Division, 1967; Brigade Commander, 6thInfantry Brigade, 2nd InfantryDivision, Onitsha, 1968; Commander, 9thInfantryBrigade (basedat Warriduringthe Civil War), 1969-72; General Staff Officer I, Lagos Garrison Organisation, 1974-75; ap pointed Federal Commissioner (now Minister) for Transport, 1975-76; Chiefof Staff, Supreme Headquarters, 1976-79; promoted from Lt.Col onelto Brigadierafter the assassination of the Head ofState, General Murtala Muhammed in February 1976; Vice-President, Supreme Military Council, 1976-79; promoted MajorGeneral; retiredfromtheArmy,October 1979; chairman, NationHousePress(Publisher ofthe Reporter newspaper, Kaduna); Chairman, Africa Ocean Lines, Lagos; Chief Executive,The Sambo Farms, Funtua, Katsina; Chief Ex ecutive, Madara Farms, Vom, Plateau State; Chairman,HabibNigeria BankLimited; Chair man, Hamada Carpets, Kaduna; former member, International Institute ofLStrategic Studies;former member,Nigerian Institute of. International Affairs; Traditional Title: Tafida of Katsina; Hobbies: hockey, tennis, squash; Official Address: Office of the Chairman, Habib Nigeria Bank Limited,28Ahmadu Bello Way, PMB 2180, Kaduna; Telephone: (062) 211933, 211942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18275","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18275","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18276,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18275\/revisions\/18276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18275"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}