{"id":6664,"date":"2016-11-15T20:40:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6664"},"modified":"2017-11-28T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:30:11","slug":"atukum-rear-admiral-samuel-bitrus-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/atukum-rear-admiral-samuel-bitrus-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"ATUKUM, Rear-Adm Samuel Bitrus (rtd)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, fss, psc,mss,dss; naval officer(retired); mechanical engineer, administrator, b:November 1940; p:Tof, Bokkos;so: Plateau; m: Henrietta Amine 1973; nc:one s,twod; ed: Panyam(Nakam) Primary School, Panyam, 1950-55; Gingiri Boys&#8217;Secondary School, Gingiri, Plateau State, 1956-60; Federal Emergency Science School, 1961-62; Howard University, Washington DC,USA, 1963-65; Pennyslvania State University,State College, USA, 1965-68;United StatesCoastGuard Candidate School, YorkTown,Virgini&#8217;e USA, 1967; National War College, NewPort, Rhode Island, USA, 1976; National Institute ofPolicyandStrategic Studies,Kuru,Plateau State, 1982.en Engr. Watch Keeping Officer, NNS Nigeria, 1968-70; asst Base Engineer Officer, NNS Beecrofl, 970-71; Supervisor,TheConstruction ofthe MKIII Corvettes, Vosper Thomycroft, Portsmouth, UK, 1971-72; MarineEngineerOfficer,NNSDorina, 1973-74; FleetEngr. Officer, Flotilla Command;TechnicalOfficer,WesternNational Command.Apape 1976-78; dn Marine Engineering, 1978-81; Procurement andProduction, JointChiefsofStaff Headquarters, MinistryofDefence, Lagos, 1985-86;Commodore Superintendent Naval Dockyard,Victoria Island, Lagos, 1989-92; retired, December31,1991; Civilian Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos, 1992-94;Co-ordinator, Naval Shipyards, 1994; md\/ceo. San-Gaco Ltd., 1994-95; ch.Interim Management Committee, Nigeria Unity LineLtd, 1996; md\/ceo. Nigeria Unity Line Pic, 1996; ch.Administrative Panel oflnquiryontheSale ofNigerian National Shipping Line Vessels, 1995-96; mm.associate, American Society of Naval Engineers; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Council ofRegistered Engineers; Nigerian SocietyofEngineers, h: Forces Service Star, Pass Staff Course; Meritorious ServiceStar,Distinguished Service Star, sc: Patron, Akandi,Cultural andCommunity Development Association, Tof, Bokkos, Iga, Plateau State bob:-Photography, auto-mechanics, off:Nigerian Unity Line, 34,CreekRoad, Apape Lagos, tel: 01-5804808-9. res: 10,Zainab Street Medina Estate, Gbagada, P.O. Box74441, Victoria Island, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6664","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6664","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\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}