{"id":9432,"date":"2017-02-03T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9432"},"modified":"2017-12-04T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:31:05","slug":"chijuka-brigadier-general-fred","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/chijuka-brigadier-general-fred\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIJUKA, Brig-Gen Fred"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired soldier, born Issele Uku, Delta State; married Ndidi Joseph, two sons, four daughters; Education; St. Thomas Teachers College, Ibusa; University of Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University, 1963-66; Nigerian Army, Captain, 1971; Diploma Course in Journalism, Times Journalism Institute, Lagos; Defence Information School, Indianapolis, United State; Career: Appointed Public Relations Officer, 21st and 1 Infantry Brigade, Nigerian Army, 1972; 1974-75; Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 3 Infantry Division, 1975-78; promoted Major, 1976; 4 Infantry Division, 1978-79; promoted Lieutenant Colonel, 1982; 2 Mechanised Division, 1984-87; promoted Colonel, 1987; Director, Army Public Relations,1987; Director, Defence Information; promoted Brigadier General,1992; retired from the Nigerian Army, 1998; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations; Publication: Military Political Leadership; Military Decorations: Pass Staff College; Forces Staff Star; Hobbies: visiting friends,jogging, reading, squash. Home: Issele-Uku, Delta State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[253],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9432","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9432","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\/9432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}