{"id":14382,"date":"2017-03-08T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14382"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T12:42:39","slug":"onu-justice-sylvester-umaru","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onu-justice-sylvester-umaru\/","title":{"rendered":"ONU, Justice Sylvester Umaru"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LL.B,BL, jurist, born June 15, 1938, Egume, Dekina, Kogi State, married Elizabeth Ali Achimugu 1966, three sons, four daughters; Education: St Boniface Catholic School, Idah, 1945-69, Middle School, Dekina, 1950-54, Provincial Secondary School (Abdul Aziiz Attan Col lege), Okene, 1955-58, Government College, Keffi, 1959-60, Legal Wing Institute of Ad ministration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1961 -62, Gibson and Weldon College of Law, 1962-63, School ofOriental and Af rican Studies, London University, 1962-63; Career: Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, London, 1965, Called to the Nigerian Bar, 1965; Magistrate, Kwara Judiciary, Ilorin and later ChiefMagistrate; appointed Judge, High Court of Benue State, 1976-83; Justice, Court of Appeal, 1984-93; Justice, Supreme Court of Nigeria since 1993. Prize: First Winner, Sir Lionel Brett Prize as Best Student in Criminal Law, Nigerian Law School, 1965. Traditional Title: Omachi Attah Igalaland, 1983. Hobbies: hunting, reading, swim ming, gardening, lawn tennis, fishing. Offi cial address: Supreme Court of Nigeria, Three Arm Zone, Central District, P.M.B. 308, Abuja. Telephone: 09-234-6715. Home: 2, Justices&#8217; Quarters, Area II, Garki, Abuja. Telephone: 09-234-6167<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14382","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14382","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\/14382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14382"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}