Ghana Armed Forces

Rear Admiral Arthur Riby Sampa Nuno, Chief of the Naval Staff, was born on 8 March 1946 in Accra. R/Adm Nuno was commissioned into the Ghana Navy, Executive Branch on 14 November 1970.

R/Adm Nuno military training and qualifications include; Anti-submarine Warfare Course in the United Kingdom from February to May 1974, Long Torpedo Anti Submarine Course in India between September 1977 and May 1978 and attended the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Senior Division, between September 1984 and August 1985. Between February and May 1996, he attended the Amphibious Planning International Officers Course at the Naval Amphibious School in San Diego in the United States, and the Navy Senior International Defence Management Course at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California also in the United States between June and July 2002.

He has held numerous appointments within the Ghana Armed Forces. Aside being a Watch-Keeping Officer and Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of the Defence Staff between 1970 and 1976, he served as Executive Officer on board Ghana Navy Ships GNS KOMENDA, GNS DZATA and GNS ACHIMOTA. He was Commanding Officer of GNS YOGAGA at various times between July 1987 and September 1990. Between August and September 1990, as Commanding Officer of GNS YOGAGA, his ship served with the ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group, ECOMOG in Liberia.

R/Adm Nuno was Commanding Officer of Ghana Navy Flagship GNS ACHIMOTA between September 1990 and June 1992 during which he also served as the Acting Senior Officer Afloat. He was General Staff Officer Grade One (Naval Operations) at the General Headquarters from June 1992 to April 1993 and again from April 1994 to July 1996. Between July 1996 and December 2000, he acted for sometime before being made the substantive Naval Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Base in Tema.

He was Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) of the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) from December 2000 to March 2003. Until his appointment as Chief of Naval Staff in 2005, R/Adm Nuno served as the Director General Logistics at the General Headquarters between March 2003 and May 2005. R/Adm Nuno has peacekeeping experience. He served as a Military Observer with the United Nations Protective Force in Yugoslavia between April 1993 and April 1994.

He formally handed over to his successor, Rear Admiral M Quashie, on 3 April 2009.