{"id":6161,"date":"2016-11-09T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6161"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:38:28","slug":"aziza-major-general-patrick-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/aziza-major-general-patrick-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"AZIZA, Maj-Gen Patrick (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFR, psc(+), fss,mss,mni,soldier, administrator, businessman;- b: December23,1947; p: Abakaliki,so: Delta;<br \/>\ned: General Certificate ofEducation, &#8216;A&#8217; Level (Private Studies); Nigeria I DefenceAcademy RegularCourse 4;Commissioned 2&#8243;* Lieutenant, 1970; MortarPlatoon Course, 1971;Advanced InfantryCourse,USA, 1974; Army Command and StaffCollege, 1979; Defence Services StaffCollege, 1980; Senior Executive Course, National Institute for PolicyandStrateticStudies, Jos, 1992;<br \/>\ncr:CommandingOfficer, 17Infantry Battalion, l970-7l;Aide-de- Campto ChiefofArmy Staff, 1972-74;BrigadeMajor, 3 Infantry Brigade, 1975-76;Ag.CommandingOfficer,146Infantry Battalion, 1976-77; Adjutant, Nigerian Defence Academy, 1977-78; General StaffOfficer, Grade II, Army Headquarters, 1979-80; Directing Staff,JuniorDivision,Command andStaff College, Jaji, 1980-82; Colonel,Administration andQuartering, Nigerian ArmySchoolofInfantry, 1982-84;CommandingOfficer, 65 Infantry Battalion, 1984-86; din MilitaryTraining,NigerianDefenceAcademy,1986-89;Chief ofOfficers, United Nations Iran-Iraq MilitaryObserverGroup, 1989-90; Commander, Lagos Garrison; Military Administrator,Kebbi State, 1991; mm: Provisional Ruling Council; Provisional MilitaryCouncil;ch. Special Military Tribunal,Jos, 1995;min. ofCommunications, 1997;Commerce&#038; Tourism,1998-99;retired since 1999;ch. PeemosGroupofcompanies; h: 1- Vice President, UrhoboProgress Union,since2007;<br \/>\nnh: Commander ofthe Orderofthe Federal Republic(CFR); dec ForcesService Star, Meritorious ServiceStar; tt: Aziza ofOkpe Kingdom,2009;AjagunaofOkukuland<br \/>\n;hob: travelling,watching football and reading;<br \/>\noff: PeemosPlace,SapeleGRA, Sapele,DeltaState. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,209,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6161","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-business-person","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6161","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\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}