{"id":6972,"date":"2016-11-28T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6972"},"modified":"2017-11-28T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T10:16:49","slug":"bajowa-major-general-joseph-oluyemi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bajowa-major-general-joseph-oluyemi\/","title":{"rendered":"BAJOWA, Maj-GenJoseph Oluyemi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, retired soldier, administrator, born December 27, 1940, Okitipupa, Ondo State; married Loretta Aduke, two sons, three daughters: Education: Manuwa Memorial Grammar School, lju-Odo, 1954-58, Gboluji Grammar School, Ile-Oluji, 1959, Federal School of Science, Lagos, 1960, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Command and Staff College, Camberley, England, 1970, University of Lagos, Lagos; joined the Nigerian Army, Headquarters, Lagos, 1966-67; Brigade Major, 2nd Area Command, NA, 1967; Commanding Officer, 11 Infantry Battalion, NA, 1967-68; Commanding Officer, Nigerian Training Depot, NA, Abeokuta, 1968-69; General Staff Officer, 13 Division, NA, 1971-72; acting General Officer Comman ding, 3 Division, NA, 1971; acting military Governor, Rivers State, 1973; General Staff Officer, 13 Brigade Command, NA, 1973-74; acting Military Governor, defunct South- Eastern State, 1974; appointed Adjutant- General. NA, January-July, 1975; Quarter master-General, NA, 1975-78; Commandant, Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1978-79; retired voluntarily from the Nigerian Army, 1980; appointed Managing Director, Nigeria Airways, January 7, &#8216; 1988-August 1989; member, International Institute of Strategic Studies, Passed Staff College (PSC), 1970; Na tional Honour: awarded the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1982; National Decoration: Forces Star Medal (FSM); Foreign Decoration: UN Peace keeping Operation Medal, Congo; Award: winner, Best Student, Correspondence and. Open Studies Institute (COSIT), University of Lagos, 1988; Hobbies: lawn tennis, squash, table tennis, football; Official Address: c\/o Airways House, PMB 1024, Ikeja, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 963024; Home: 26, Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6972","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6972","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\/6972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}