{"id":2688,"date":"2023-11-18T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-army-gets-first-professor\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T07:02:47","slug":"nigerian-army-gets-first-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-army-gets-first-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian army gets first professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna on Friday announced the promotion of Lt. Col. Abubakar-Surajo Imam to Professor of Mechatronics Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Imam is said to be the first ever professor among serving personnel in the history of the Nigerian Army.<\/p>\n<p>Brig.-Gen. AM Tukur, Registrar of the Academy, announced the promotion in a statement on Friday in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the promotion was ratified during the NDA Council Meeting in September and took effect from October 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The registrar said that the council\u2019s decision was a reflection of the confidence and recognition of the contributions of Imam to the Department of Mechatronics Engineering of the Academy.<\/p>\n<p>He said the new professor had provided exemplary services and upheld the standard of excellence expected in his field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis recognition not only honours Professor Imam but also highlights the commitment of the Nigerian Defence Academy to acknowledging and rewarding outstanding contributions within its academic community,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian army gets first professor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna on Friday announced the promotion of Lt. Col. Abubakar-Surajo Imam to Professor of Mechatronics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3865],"tags":[14,180,766],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nigerian-army","tag-army","tag-news","tag-nigerian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}