{"id":19071,"date":"2017-04-07T01:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=19071"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:00:09","slug":"umar-colonel-abubakar-dangiwa-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/umar-colonel-abubakar-dangiwa-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"UMAR, Col Abubakar Dangiwa (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, businessman, democratic and human rights activist, social crusader; b: September 21, 1949; ht: Birnin Kebbi; so: Kcbbi; married, has children, ed: Birnin Kebbi Primary School, 1957-63; Government College, Sokoto, 1964-68;Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1967-72; Nigerian Army Armoured School, Ibadan, 1972; US Army Administration School, For Benjamin, Harrison, Indiana, USA, 1976; Royal Armour Centre. England, 1976-77; USA Army Armour School, Kentucky, USA, 197778; Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1978-79, 1982-83; Bayero University, Kano, 1979-81; Harvard University, USA, 1988-89. cr: Nigerian Army, 1967; Troop Leader, 3, Recce Regiment, Nigerian Army, 1972; Squadron Captain, Squadron Leader (Armour), Battalion Commander, General Staff Officer Grade II, Training, Army School of Armour; Brigade Major, 21 Armour Brigade; Aid-De-Camp (ADC) to Deputy Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters (General Hassan Katsina (Rtd), Lagos; General StaffOfficerGrade I, Training, School ofArmour. General Staff Officer Grade I, Department of Armour; Military Administrator, Federal Housing Authority, Lagos, 1984-85; Military Governor, Kaduna State, 1985-88; national vice-patron, Nigerian Institute of Management, 1986; ch\/ceo. Work and Worship (Gas Company) Nigeria Ltd, Kaduna. hob: polo, reading, hunting, squash. off:\/res: 1, Dikko Road, Kaduna. tel: 062-236144, 236145. off: 062-230213.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[505,209,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-19071","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-activism","category-business-person","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/19071","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\/19071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}