{"id":7124,"date":"2016-12-12T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7124"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:42:34","slug":"balogun-major-general-saidu-ayodele","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/balogun-major-general-saidu-ayodele\/","title":{"rendered":"BALOGUN, Major-General Saidu Ayodele"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>soldier, born April 20;*1941, Idoani, Owo, On do* State; married, has children; Education: Ansar-Ud-Deen School, Idoani and Holy Trinity Primary School, Idoani, 1947-54, Olu- Iwa College (now Adeola Odutola College), Ijebu-Ode, 1955-61, Nigerian Military Train ing College, Kaduna, 1963-64, Officer Cadet School, USA, 1964, School of Transportation, Aldershot, UK, 1965, Advanced Transport Of ficers Course, USA, 1971-72, Command and Staff College. Jaji. 1977, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1982; enlisted in the Nigerian Army in 1963 and com missioned Second-Lieutenant, 1964; Platoon Commander, Supply and Transport, NA, 1964-66; Company Commander, Supply and Transport and the Infantry and later Battalion Commander, Supply and Transport, NA, 1968; acting Brigade Commander, Supply and Transport, NA, 1971; promoted Lieutenant Colonel, 1972; Deputy Director and later Brigade Commander, Supply and Transport, NA, 1973-75; acting Brigade Commander, 9th Infantry Brigade, Abeokuta. May-November. 1976; appointed Military Governor, Ogun State, 1976-78; Commandant. Nigerian Army School of Supply and Transport. 1978-80; Director of Supply and Transport. NA, 1980-83; Quartermaster-General, NA, 1984-85; appointed Executive Chairman (now Managing Director), Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1985-88; appointed Director of Ord nance Services, Nigerian Army, since 1988; Hobbies: reading, squash; Official Address: Nigerian Army Headquarters, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7124","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7124","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\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}