CFR, FSS, MSS, PSC, USNWC, FWC; Naval Officer, born: November 14, 1948; Married; has children, <\/p>\n
Education: Rimi, Saint John’s College, Kaduna, 1962-66; NDA, Kaduna Regular Course 4, 1968-70; Nigerian Defence Academy, 1968-69; Midshipman’s Course, United Kingdom and India, 1970; Sub-Lieutenant Technical Course, India, 1971-72; Navigation Course, United Kingdom, 1973; Under water Warfare Course, India, 1974-77; Principal Warfare Officers’ Courses, United Kingdom 1979; United States Naval War College Course, 1981; Training Course for newly built ships France, 1981-82; United States Naval War College 1991-92. <\/p>\n
Career: Watch Keeping duties on NNS Enugu and Ibadan as Gunnery\/Navigation Officer, 1972-73; Navigation Officer, NSS Yola in United Kingdom 1974; Laboratory Officer, Naval Armament Depot Kirikiri, 1976; Executive Officer, NNS Akaso, Port-Harcourt 1977-78; Commanding Officer, NNS Ruwan Yaro, 1978-79; Standby for Ships Construction, NNS Enyimiri, United Kingdom, 1979-80; Commanding Officer, NNS Otobo and Dorina 1980; and Standby for Ships Construction 1981;Commanding Officer. NNS Eken in France 1982; Naval Provost Marshall 1982-83; Executive Officer, NNS Aradu 1983-84; Commander NNS Anansa, 1985-86; Commanding Officer, Naval Wing, Nigerian Defence Academy, 1986- 87; director Administrator, NDA, 1986-90; Commanding Officer, NNS Quora, 1990-91; Directing Staff. National War College 1992-93; Chief Staff Officer and Fleet Commander (West) 1993-94; Deputy Commandant, Command and Staff College. Jaji, 1994-95; Chief of Plans, Naval Headquarters, 1995-96; presently .Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command,1995-97; Appionted Chief of Defence Staff , May 29, 1999; Vice Admiral Promoted Serving Admiral of the Nigerian Navy, October 2001; Honours: Force Service Star; Meritorious Service Star; Pass Staff College; US nwc and fwc; National Honour: Commander of the Federal Republic, 2001; Hobbies. soccer, table tennis and golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8913","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8913","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\/8913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8913"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}