{"id":10067,"date":"2017-02-08T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10067"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:28:58","slug":"okagbue-justice-rowland-obiora","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okagbue-justice-rowland-obiora\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAGBUE, (Justice) Rowland Obiora"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>footballer,- athlete, legal practitioner, a judge of the High Court,&#8217; Enugu; Born at Burutu, Bendel State, April, 23, 1920; Education: Central School, Onitsha; St. Cyprrian&#8217;s School, Port Harcourt; Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, Northampton College of Applied Optics, London, \u2014 Fellow of the British Optical Association (F.B.O.A); University of London, and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies &#8211; LL.M (London); Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, London B.L. Career history; Practised as Ophthalmic Optician before becoming a lawyer; Crown Counsel 1957, trained legal Draftsman (Westmins ter); appointed Deputy Legal Drafts man of former Eastern Nigeria, 1961; promoted Legal Draftsman for former Eastern Nigeria, 1962; Solicitor-General, East Central State, 1970; Judge of the High Court, former East Central State, 1972; member of Nigerian delegation to the London Conference on future of Law in Africa, read a paper at the Workshop on Indigenous Laws, University of Nigeria, 1975; Married with five children; Hobby: Photography &#8211; still and cine. Address: Judge&#8217;s chamber. The High Court, Enugu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,547],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10067","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10067","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}