{"id":9064,"date":"2017-01-27T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9064"},"modified":"2017-04-20T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:25:30","slug":"ferreira-lieutenant-colonel-antonio-abayomi-jorge","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ferreira-lieutenant-colonel-antonio-abayomi-jorge\/","title":{"rendered":"FERREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Abayomi Jorge"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MB, BS, retired military of ficer, surgeon, administrator, born August 1, 1938, Port Harcourt, Rivers State; married Esther Ayodele Idowu Olayinka 1966, five sons, one daughter; Education: St Paul&#8217;s (Breadfruit) School, Lagos 1944-51, Christ&#8217;s School, Ado-Ekiti, 1952-56, University of Ibadan, 1957-65, Lister Institute, Edinburgh Post Graduate Board of Medicine, 1971-73, Nigerian Defence Academy, 1978; Regimental Medical Officer, 68 AFM, Yaba, July 1967; Regimental Medical Officer, 2 Fd, Amb, August 1967; Commanding Officer,. 3 Amb Divisional Surgeon, 3 Marine Commando Division, Nigerian Army; acting Asistant Director of Medical Services, 1969; Regimental Medical Officer, Lagos Car Organisation, May 1970; Commanding Officer, 78 Armed Forces Hospital, Lagos, July 1970; appointed Consul tant Surgeon, 44 Armed Forces Hospital, Kaduna, October 1974; Commanding Officer, Military Hospital, Benin City, 1975; Senior Consultant Surgeon, Military Hospital, Benin City, July 1978; Chief Consultant Surgeon, since 1981; commissioned in the Nigerian Ar my \u2014 Direct Regular Commission, July 1967; promoted S\/Captain, October 1966; T\/Major, 1969; S\/Major, July 1973; T\/Lieutenant- Colonel, September 1976; S\/Lieutenant- Colonel, May 1979; retired from the Nigerian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel, October 1981; Part-time associate Lecturer (Honorarium), University of Benin, 1981-83; Medical Director and founder, Ilupeju Medical Centre, Lagos; member, Nigerian Medical Association; fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1973; fellow, Nigerian Medical Col lege in Surgery, 1976; fellow, West African College of Surgeons, 1978; fellow, Interna tional College of Angiology, 1985; member, New York Academy of Sciences; member, Nigerian Institute of Management; one-time General Secretary, Preparatory Committee of the Pan African Students Movement, 1961: President, Nigerian Union in Scotland, 1972-73; Political Party: member, defunct Socialist Workers and Farmers&#8217; Party of Nigeria, 1961-66; National Decorations: Reci pient, Forces Service Star, fss, 1980; Foreign Decoration: Lenin Centenary Medal, USSR, 1970; Publications: &#8220;Surgical Care in War fare&#8221; in &#8220;Care of the Injured, &#8221; 1977, in addi tion to several articles on general medicine and surgery in international medical journals; Hobbies:*squash, swimming; Official address: Ilupeju Medical Centre, 26 Town Planning Way, Ilupeju, GPO Box 2303, Marina, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 961789; Home: 10 Lawanson Crescent, Onipanu, Palm-Grove, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9064","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9064","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}