{"id":8131,"date":"2017-01-17T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T11:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8131"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:04:41","slug":"ejiga-major-general-geoffrey-obiaje-ede-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ejiga-major-general-geoffrey-obiaje-ede-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"EJIGA, Major-General Geoffrey Obiaje Ede (rtd)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired Soldier, Businessman, Industri alist, born February 15, 1940, Adoka, Otukpo, Benue State; married 1968 with six children; Education: Methodist Central School, Adoka, 1947-53; Methodist Central School, Otukpo, 1954; Government College, Katsina-Ala, 1955-60; Nigeria Military Col lege, 1961; Officer Cadet School, United Kingdom, 1963; Career: Commissioned into Nigerian Army, 1963; appointed Comman dant of numerous Brigades and Battalion, 1st Commandant, Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1975-78; Adjutant General, Nigerian Army, 1978-79; Commander, 3rd Armoured Division, Nigerian Army, 1979-81; 1stCom mandant General, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC); Commander, OAU Forces, Chad, 1982; Commander, Lagos Gar rison, 1982-84; Retired from Nigerian Army as a Major General, 1984; Chairman, Lobi Bank Nigeria Limited, Managing Director\/ Chief Executive, Adoka Flour Mills Limited, Jos, Avil Services Limited, Jos; Awards: Forces Service Star; Passed Staff College; member, Nigeria Institute; Honour: Order ofthe Federal Republic ofNigeria; Hobbies: golf, book writing, reading, international af fairs; Official Address: 28\/30, Bukuru Bye Pass, Box 6822, Jos, Plateau State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,307,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8131","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-industrialist","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8131","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}