{"id":6149,"date":"2016-11-09T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6149"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:11:50","slug":"ayuba-colonel-tanko","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ayuba-colonel-tanko\/","title":{"rendered":"AYUBA, Col Tanko"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>army officer, born April 12, 1945, Zuru, Sokoto State; married Ronke Dalley, has children;<br \/>\nEducation: Nigerian Military School, Zaria, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna (short service course I), 1967, School of Signals, Blandord Camp, England, 1970, US Army South- Eastern Signals School, Fort Gorbob, Georgia, USA, 1972-73, Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1978-79, Nigerian School of In fantry, Jaji, Military College of Communica tions Engineering, India, 1981, Administrative and Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Badagry, 1981, Nigerian Army Intelligence School, Apapa, 1983, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, near Jos, 1988;<br \/>\n commissioned (into the NA Signals Cor ps), August, 1967; Adjutant, 1 Signal Regi ment, NA, 1967-69; Officer Commanding, 4 Infantry Brigade Signal Squadron, 1969-71; Officer Commanding, Garrison Organisation Signal Squadron, Ibadan, 1971-72; Brigade Major, I Signal Brigade, Apapa, 1972-74; Commanding Officer, 1 Signal Regiment, NA, 1974-76; acting Commander, 1 Signal Brigade, NA, 1976-78; appointed Commandant, NA Signal Training School, Apapa, 1978-79; Com manding Officer, 2 Division Signals, NA and 52 Division Headquarters (Signals), 1979-80; Commander, Corps of Signals Brigade, NA, 1980-81; Commanding Officer, Army Head quarters Garrison and Signals Group, NA, 1981-84; appointed Commander, Corps of Signals, NA, 1984-85; appointed member. Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC), 1985-88; appointed Federal Minister of Com munications, 1985-87; Director of Manning, Nigerian Army Headquarters, Lagos, since 1988; member, National Institute (mni), 1988; Passed Staff College (PSC), 1979;<br \/>\nHobbies: music, sports;<br \/>\nOfficial Address: Nigerian Ar my Headquarters, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6149","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6149","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\/6149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}