{"id":18432,"date":"2017-03-30T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18432"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:11:18","slug":"ukpo-brig-gen-stephen-anthony-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ukpo-brig-gen-stephen-anthony-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"UKPO, Brig-Gen. Stephen Anthony (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>psc, fss, M.Sc; retired soldier, businessman; DOB: July 16, 1947; Hometown: Okpoma, Ogoja, State of Origin: Cross River; Married: Salome Ufuoma Akusu, 1979; has children, EDUCATION: St. Augustine&#8217;s Seminary, 1961-65; Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna; Mons Officers Cadet School, United Kingdom, 1968;School ofInfantry, USA; Laselle Extension University, USA. 1976-77; Army Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1977-78, Command and General Staff College, USA, 1979-80. Career: Company Commander. 1968; Battalion Commander, 1969. 1971-73; Brigade Major. 1970; Instructor. Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1973-74; Adjutant, Nigerian Defence Academy. Kaduna, 1975-76; Chief Press\/Information Officer. United Nations Interim Force. Lebanon, 1978-79; Directing Staff. Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1980-82; dir. Doctrine and Combat Development, Training and Doctrine Command, 1982-85; Deputy dir. Defence Intelligence Agency, 1985; Federal Minister of Information and Culture. 1985-86; Military gov. Rivers State, 1986-88; Principal StaffOfficer to President Ibrahim Babangida. 1988; mm: Board of Directors. Artoliti Ltd: mm: TOF Group of Companies, h: Pass Staff College. 1978; Forces Service Star, fd: United Nations Service Medal. 1979. publ: Changing Face of the Nigerian Army. 1978; Super Power Rivalry in the Horn ofAfrica. 1980; The Logistic Implications of UN Peace Keeping Operations. 1980. hob: golf, reading, writing, boating, music res: Okpoma, Ogoja, Cross River State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18432","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18432","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}