{"id":9963,"date":"2017-02-07T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9963"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:13:21","slug":"coomassie-alhaji-ibrahim-ahmadu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/coomassie-alhaji-ibrahim-ahmadu\/","title":{"rendered":"COOMASSIE, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmadu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired police officer, bom March 18, 1942, Katsina; married with children; Education: Central Elementary School, Katsina, 1950- 52, Middle School, Katsina, 1953-54, Pro vincial Secondary School, Zaria, 1956-61, Barewa College, Zaria, 1962-63, Detective Training Course, Wakefield, United King dom, 1967, Overseas Officers&#8217; Course in Police Administration, USA, 1973, Specialised Course in Security Investigation, Washington DC, USA, 1973, MilitaryIntel ligence Course, Military Institute, USA, 1973, Instructor&#8217;s Course, Police Training School, England, 1975, Command Course, Police StaffCollege, Jos, 1980, National In stitute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1981; Career: Worked in the Nigeria Po lice Force, rose to the rank of InspectorGen eral; Member, Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, 1991; Tra ditional Title: Sardanna of Katsina, 1999; Honour\/Awards: Recipient, Grand Com mander of the Order of the Niger, 1998; Recipient, LongService Medal, 1976; recipi ent, National Service Medal, 1977; recipi ent, Republic Medal, 1977; recipient, Sil ver Jubilee Anniversary Medal, 1985;recipi ent, Nigeria Police Medal, 1990; recipient, Grand Commander ofthe Order ofthe Niger, 1998; Honorary Degree: awarded, Doctor ate Degree in Law, Imo State University, Owerri, 1998; Publications: Law, Religion and Security as Factors for Stability in Nigeria s Third Republic, 1988; Treat to In ternal Security, Joint Police\/MilitaryTrain ing Week, Kano, 1988; Treat to Internal Se curity, The Procedure of Hand-over to the Military bythe Police, 1989; LawEnforce mentfor Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria in the Third Republic, 1991; Hob bies: Reading, playingsquashracket.Home: Katsina, Katsina State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9964,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,722],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9963","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-police"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9963","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\/9963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}