{"id":74,"date":"2024-06-28T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=74"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:57:39","slug":"nigerian-army-promotes-first-uk-trained-female-officer-to-lieutenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/nigerian-army-promotes-first-uk-trained-female-officer-to-lieutenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army Promotes First UK-Trained Female Officer To Lieutenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigeria&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has ordered the promotion of Second Lieutenant Oluchukwu Owowoh to the substantive rank of Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nigerian Defence Academy NDA, disclosed this in a statement on X.com on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of the statement by the NDA on Wednesday read, \u201cSpeaking during the decoration ceremony that took place today, June 26, 2024, at the Nigerian Defence Academy Officer\u2019s Mess and Golf Club, the NDA Commandant, Major General JO Ochai, extolled the track record of excellence of Lt. Owowoh as a cadet, which accorded her the rare privilege of becoming the first female Nigerian to be trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as well as her promotion to the new rank.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe event was attended by senior military officers, academic and non-academic staff, and family members, among others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Owowoh, 24, made history by becoming the first Nigerian female officer to graduate from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: PUNCH Online<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has ordered the promotion of Second Lieutenant Oluchukwu Owowoh to the substantive rank of Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Defence Academy NDA, disclosed this in a statement on X.com on Wednesday. Part of the statement by the NDA on Wednesday read, \u201cSpeaking during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}