{"id":14820,"date":"2017-03-09T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14820"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T08:30:47","slug":"onyeama-justice-charles-dadi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onyeama-justice-charles-dadi\/","title":{"rendered":"ONYEAMA, Justice Charles Dadi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, LLB, jurist, born April 26, 1916, Eke, Udi, Anam bra State; Marriage: Susanna Ogwudu 1950 and Florence Wilcox 1966, five sons, two daughters; Education: St Paul&#8217;s Roman Catholic Mission School, 1920-24, Bonny Government Primary School, 1924-29, Government College, Umuahia, 1930-31, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1931-35, Achimota College, Ghana, 1937, University of London, 1937-40, called to the English Bar, Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, London, 1940, Braseriose College, University of Oxford, England, 1940-41; engaged in private legal practice, 1940-44; Ad ministrative Officer, Nigerian Civil Service, 1944-46; member, House of Assembly, defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria, 1946-51; member, Legislative Council of Nigeria, 1947-51; member, Constitution Drafting Committee, Lagos, 1948-50; appointed Chief Magistrate, defunct Western Region, 1952-56; Acting judge, High Court, Lagos, 1957-64; Acting Judge, High Court, defunct Western Region, 1956-57; appointed Judge, High Court, Lagos, 1957-64; Acting Chief Judge, Lagos High Court, 1961 and 1963; appointed Justice ofthe Supreme Court of Nigeria, Lagos, 1964-67; Judge, International Court of Justice, The Hague, 1967-76;Chairman, Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, Nigeria, 1976-79; Chair man, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) Teaching Hospitals Complex Building, Ile-Ife, 1976-79; Chairman, Orthopaedic Hospitals Management&#8217;Board, 1979; Part-time Judge, World Bank Ad ministrative Tribunal, since 1982; member, Nigerian Bar Association; Traditional title: Ozo; Ideyi-ju-Ogwugwu; National Honour: Conferred with Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR), 1980; Honorary Degrees: Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LLD), University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LLD), University of Lagos; Hobbies: reading, walk ing; Address: 1, Church Road, Asata, Enugu, Anambra State;Telephone: (042) 330626.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14820","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14820","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14820"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}