{"id":15694,"date":"2017-03-14T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15694"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:06:07","slug":"irikefe-justice-ayo-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/irikefe-justice-ayo-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"IRIKEFE, Justice Ayo Gabriel(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jurist, born March 3, 1922, Ikorodu, Lagos State; married Gumedia A. Ojomo 1978, one son, three daughters; Education: CMS Anglican School, Okitipupa, 1929-30, St John&#8217;s (Catholic) School. Okitipupa, 1930-31, St Matthew&#8217;s Catholic School, Ode-Ondo, 1932-36, St Gregory&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1937-41, College of Marine Engineering and Telecommunications, Manchester, UK, 1945-46, Council of Legal Education, London, 1949-52, called to the Bar, Middle Temple Inn, July, 1952; enrolled as Solicitor and Advocate, Supreme Court of Nigeria, November 1952; engaged in Private Legal Practice, Warri, 1952-55; appointed Crown Counsel, defunct Western Nigeria, 1955, later returned to Private Practice; ap pointed first Attorney-General, Mid-Western Region (now Bendel State), 1966; Judge, High Court, Mid-Western Nigeria, June 1, 1966; first Chairman, Robbery and Firearms Tribunal, Mid-Western Nigeria, 1971; ap pointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, September 1972; appointed Chair man, Panel on the Creation of States, August 1975; Chairman, Crude Oil Sales Tribunal, April, 1980; appointed Chief Justice of Nigeria, 1985-87; retired from the Supreme Court, March 3, 1987; appointed Leading Counsel, Probe Panel into the &#8220;Owegbe Cult&#8221;, 1965; National Honours: awarded Of ficer of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1976; Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), 1981; Grand Commande. of the Order of the Niger (GCON), 1987; Hobbies: lawn tennis, swimming; Address: 4 Imoru Close, off Queen&#8217;s Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15694","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15694","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15694"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}