{"id":8492,"date":"2017-01-20T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8492"},"modified":"2017-04-20T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:50:36","slug":"ekpo-major-general-eyo-okon","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekpo-major-general-eyo-okon\/","title":{"rendered":"EKPO, Major-General Eyo Okon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B, retired soldier, lawyer, born November 14, 1928, Calabar, Cross River State; married, has children;Education: St George&#8217;s School, Aba, Duke town School, Calabar, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, Eko Secondary School, Lagos, 1948, Officer Ca dets Training, Royal West African Frontier Force Training School, Teshie, Ghana, March- August, 1957 and Eaton Hill, UK, 1958, Joint ServicesStaffCollege,UK, 1967, Royal College ofDefence Studies, UK, 1973, University of Lagos; Career: Enlisted in the West African Frontier Force, 1948; commis sioned 2nd Lieutenant, Royal West African Frontier Force, 1958; appointed Platoon Commander, 3rd Battalion, 1960-61; served in the UnitedNations Peace-Keeping Force, Congo, 1961; on return to Nigeria became 2nd in Command, 2nd and 5th Infantry Bat talions; appointed DeputyAssistantAdjutant and Quarter-master-General, Nigerian Army Headquarters, 1961;promotedCommanding Officer, 5th Battalion, 1966;appointed Mili tary Secretary, and later Chief of Staff, Su premeheadquarters, Lagos, 1967;promoted Major-General, Nigerian Army, 1971; ap pointed Federal Commissioner for Agricul ture, 1975; retired from the Nigerian Army as Major-General, 1975; appointed Magis trate and later Senior Magistrate, Cross River State Judiciary, Odukpani; National Honour: awarded Officer ofthe Order ofthe Federal Republic (OFR), 1982; Address: Treshi Lodge, Diamond Hill, Calabar, Cross River State; Telephone: 087-221072.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,165,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8492","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-legal","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8492","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8496,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8492\/revisions\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}