{"id":6910,"date":"2016-11-22T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6910"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:49:55","slug":"babangida-general-ibrahim-badamasi-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/babangida-general-ibrahim-badamasi-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"BABANGIDA, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi (rtd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCFR, CFR, former presd., commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria; b: August 17, 1941; ht: Minna; so: Niger; m: Maryam King, 1969; nc: two s, two d; ed: Government College, Bida, 1957-62, Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna, 1962-63; Indian Military Academy, 1964; Royal Armoured Centre, United Kingdom, 1996-67; Advanced Armoured Officers&#8217; Course, Army Armoured School, USA, 1972-73; Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1977; Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, 1979; Snr. International Defence Management Course, Naval PostgraduateSchool,USA, 1980;cr: Second Lieutenant, Nigerian Army, 1963; Commanding Officer, 1st Recon naissance Squadron, 1964-66; Lieutenant, 1966; Commander, 44 Infantry Battalion (The Rangers), 1968; Captain, 1968; Major, 1970; Instructor\/Company Commander, Nigerian Defence Academy, 1970- 72; Commander, 4 Reconnaissance Regiment, 1974; Lieutenant- Colonel, 1974; Inspector\/Commander, Nigerian Army Armoured Corps, 1975, 1977-79; Brigadier, 1979; dir. Army Staff Duties and Plans, 1981-83; Major-General, 1983; Chief of Army Staff, 1983; mem. defunct Supreme Military Council, 1975-1979, 1983-85; presd\/ Commander-in-Chiefof the Armed Forces, 1985-93; ch. Armed Forces Ruling Council, 1985-93; General, Nigerian Army, 1987,ch. Triple Heritage Press, Abuja; mm. National Institute; honorary grand patron, Nigerian Academy of Science, 1988; national patron, Boys&#8217; Brigade, 1988; Deputy ch., Muritala Mohammed Foundation, 2002. nh. Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic, 1983; Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, 2003; LL.D (Honouris Causa) Federal university of Technology Minna, 1999; Decorations: Defence Service Medal, National Service Medal, Royal Service Medal, Forces Services Star, General Service Medal, Grand Gordon in the Meritorious Order of International Military Sports Council, 1988. fh. Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, United Kingdom, 1989. publ: Civiland Military Relationship, the Nigerian Experience, 1979; Defence Policy within the Framework of National Planning, 1985, and numerous papers on military and defenceissues, hob: reading, soccer, lawntennis, cricket, res: Hilltop, Minna, Niger State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6910","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6910","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22995,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6910\/revisions\/22995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}