{"id":8586,"date":"2017-01-23T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8586"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:03:52","slug":"ogbemudia-brigadier-samuel-osaigbovo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogbemudia-brigadier-samuel-osaigbovo\/","title":{"rendered":"OGBEMUDIA, Brigadier Samuel Osaigbovo(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CON, retired soldier, administrator; b: September 17, 1932; ht: Benin City; State of Origin: Edo; married: 1955;<br \/>\nNo of Children : two son, eight daughter;<br \/>\nEducation: Benin Baptist School, 1940-45; Government School, Victoria, British Cameroon, 1945-47; Western Boys&#8217; High School, Benin, 1947-51.<br \/>\nCareer: Enlisted in the Nigerian Army, 1953; trained at Teshie, Ghana, 1957-,59; British School of Infantry, Nevhervon, Zimbabwe, 1959-60; Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, England, 1960-62; Army Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, South Carolina, USA, 1962-63; served in the United Nations Peace-Keeping Force, Congo, 1963-64; Major, 1964; Instructor, Chief Instructor, Nigerian Military Training College, 1965-66; Brigade Major, 1st Brigade, Kaduna, 1966; Commander, Military Station, Benin, 1966; Military Administrator, Midwest State (now Edo\/Delta States), 1967; Lieutenant-Colonel and later Military Governor, Midwest State, 1967- 75; Colonel, 1969; Brigadier, 1975; ch. Ogbemudia Holdings Limited, Benin; Executive Governor, Bendel State, October-December 1983; ch, National Sports Commission, 1987-89; Board of Port-Harcourt Refinery, Presidential Committee is not problems of sports; : later Sole Administrator, Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1989; former Minister of Labour and Productivity; Founder, Edo Mass Movement,<br \/>\nPolitical Party: defunct National Party of Nigeria, 1979-83; defunct United Nigeria Congress Party; Peoples Democratic Party,<br \/>\nHonarary Degree: Doctor of Science University of Benin, Benin City, 1980;<br \/>\nNational Honours: Commander of the Niger<br \/>\nHonour: Honourary Fellowship Award, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, June 2002; res: 35A, Glover Road. Glover Terrace Flat 8, Ikoyi, Lagos tel: 01-683114 or 108 House, West Circular Road, P.O. Box 1315 Benin City, Edo State, tel: 052-245163.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8586","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8586","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8586\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}