{"id":8578,"date":"2017-01-23T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8578"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:39:59","slug":"ogbeha-brig-gen-jonathan-tunde-rtd","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogbeha-brig-gen-jonathan-tunde-rtd\/","title":{"rendered":"OGBEHA, Brig-Gen. Jonathan Tunde (rtd)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired soldier, administrator, politician, born September 1, 1947, Nupe, Lokoja, Kogi State; married, wife(deceased) has one son;<br \/>\nEducation: Maiduguri Primary School, Nigerian Military School, Zaria, 1962-67, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1967- 70, attended several military courses in Nigeria and abroad, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1987;<br \/>\nCareer: Enlisted in the army and was commissioned- Second Lieutenant, 1970; held various Command and Staff appointments including Defence adviser in the Nigerian High Commission in Zimbabwe; former Nigerian Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea; Battalion Commander and Brigade Commander, I Mechanized Brigade, Nigerian Army, Minna, 1985-87; appointed Military Governor, Akwa Ibom State, 1987-88, Governor, defunct Bendel State, 1988-90; elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999- Date; Political Party: member, Peoples Democratic Party, 1998-date; Hobbies: foot ball,   squash; Official Address: National Assembly Complex, Three Arms Zone, PMB, 148, Garki, Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8578","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8578","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}