predecessor successor death_date birth_place nationality office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
w timming shittu alao 2000 bonny , rivers state , rivers state , nigeria nigerian chief of air staff , nigerian air force 27 july 1934 january 1966 george t. kurubo
 august 1967 george t kurubo
george t. kurubo

he was married , had four children , visited the government school in bonny .
1948-1953 : government college in umuahia .
1953 : regular officers ' training school in accra .
1954 : officer cadets , training school , eaton hall , cheshire .
1954-1955 : royal military academy sandhurst .
1956 : young air infantry officers ' school .
1961 : senior air infantry officers ' school .
1964 : command and staff college , quetta , pakistan .
1956 : promoted second lieutenant .
1956 : promoted platoon commander .
1957-1965 : various command positions .
george kurubo as a lt-col in the army converted to the newly formed nigeria air force in 1964 .
in january 1966 he become the first indigenous air force chief .
he was made an ambassador to the soviet union at the outbreak of the war .
an easterner , he did not go with the igbo-led secession because he was from rivers state which was carved out of the eastern region at the outbreak of the war .
george kurubo , who had been eastern commander of logistics , had defected from biafra to the federal government .
january -- july 1966 : member , supreme military council , also member , federal executive council .
on 12 august 1967 , he was appointed nigeria 's ambassador to the soviet union .
1967-1973 : ambassador in moscow .
1970 : promoted brigadier general .
-1975 : ambassador to iran , also accredited to ankara .
on he was retiered 1977 : chairman , bonny local government management committee .
1977-1978 : member , constituent assembly of the second nigerian republic .
he died in 2000 .
