{"id":13649,"date":"2017-03-03T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13649"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:15:53","slug":"kutigi-hon-justice-idris-legbo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kutigi-hon-justice-idris-legbo\/","title":{"rendered":"KUTIGI, Hon. Justice Idris Legbo GCON"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi is a Lawyer and a Judge. Justice Kutigi served as the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Niger State until 1976, when he was appointed High Court Judge. He was on the bench in Niger for more than 10 years before his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court in 1992. Justice Kutigi became the Chief Justice in 2007, succeeding Justice Alfa Belgore. Justice Kutigi retired on December 30, 2009 and did the unusual by swearing in his successor, Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu. The President of Nigeria usually swears in the Chief Justice however, President Umaru Musa Yar&#8217;Adua was not available on this occasion due to ill health. Justice Kutigi died in a London hospital on October 21, 2018 after a short period of illness died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24771,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13649","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13649","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24770,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13649\/revisions\/24770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}