{"id":7247,"date":"2016-12-19T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7247"},"modified":"2017-04-12T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T11:53:14","slug":"bassey-inyang-colonel-dr-edet-effiong","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bassey-inyang-colonel-dr-edet-effiong\/","title":{"rendered":"BASSEY-INYANG, Colonel (Dr.) Edet Effiong"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired army officer, born March 25, 1930, Oku-Iboku, Itu, Akwa Ibom State: mar ried Mary Arit Imona I960, two sons, three daughters; Education: Baptist Academv Primary School, Broad Street, Lagos, 1935-36, Catholic School, Forcados, Delta Area, Bendel State, 1936-43, Government College, Umuahia, Imo State, 1943-48, University Col lege (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan. 1948-53, University of Bristol, England, 1953-57; Medical Officer, General Hospital, Lagos, 1957-58; Medical Officer, Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, 1958-59; Medical Of ficer, Island Maternity Hospital, Lagos; Medical Officer, Creek Hospital, Lagos, 1960-61; Joined the Nigerian Army Army as Regimental Medical Officer, 1st Battalion, 1961-62; Regimental Medical Officer, Military Hospital, Lagos, 1962-63; Commanding Medical Officer, Military Hospital, Kaduna, 1963-65; Field Ambulance Commander, Lagos, 1965-66; Deputy Director-General, Armed Forces Medical Services, Lagos, 1966-75; Retired from the Nigerian Army as a Colonel, 1975; Medical Director\/Proprietor, Akan Group of Clinics, Lagos, since 1975; member. Royal College of Surgeons, England; fellow, Nigerian National Medical College; member, Faculty Board, Post-graduate Na tional Medical College in General Practice of Nigeria; member. International Committee of Military Medicine and Pharmacy; Hobbies: swimming, golf; Official and Home Address: Akan Group of Clinics, 2 Adamu Orisha Street, Off Adeniran Ogunsanya Street, Suru lere, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 833893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7247","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7247","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\/7247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}