{"id":16211,"date":"2017-03-17T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16211"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:44:28","slug":"omo-hon-justice-uchemefuna","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/omo-hon-justice-uchemefuna\/","title":{"rendered":"OMO, Hon. Justice, Uchemefuna"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>born August 28,1928in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria; Schools attended with dates: St. Luke&#8217;s School, Jos,Plateau State, 1934\/37; St. Paul&#8217;s School, Jos, Plateau State, 1938\/40; Igbobi College, Lagos, January 1941 to De- 4 cember, 1946; University of London; &#8216; Qualifications: LL.B (Hons.) London University (L.S.E.), 1952 B.L. Lincolns Inn, June, 1952; Called to the English Bar July 1, 1952;Admitted to practice in Nigeria; July 18, 1953; Married with six childrenthree boys and three girls; Law prac tice experience Legal Pratitioner at Aba, Imo State 1953-67 &#8211; 14 years &#8211; general practice;Counsel, Commis sion Assets of former Public Officers in Mid-West State, April-June 1967; Professional Appointments and positions held: High Court Judge, MidWest (Bendel) State, 1967-77;Justice of the Federal Court of Appel June 26, 1977 to date; Sole Commissioner visitation into University of Benin; _^. April-July 1973; Chairman, Panel In^ * vestigating Orile-Agege Army\/Civilian Disturbances &#8211; February\/March, 1976; Member, Bar Council 1964-67; Member, Council of Legal Education, * 1963-67; Member, Executive Com mittee, Nigeria Bar Association, 1961-67; Clubs and other associa tions: Member, Recreation Club, Ibadan. Member, Asaba Club, Asaba. Trustee, Asaba Development Asso ciation; 1971 to date, Member, Nigeria Football Association 195861; Chairman, Bendel State Sports Council, May 1976 to November 1978; Member\/Secretary\/President, s Aba, Sapele Warri (Recreation) dubs, ; 1955-77; Hobbies: Watching Sport^ ing events (Have attended National Sports Festivals 1973, 1977; All-Africa Sports Festivals &#8211; Lagos 1975, Algiers 1978; Olympic Games March, 1972; Montreal 1976; Mos cow 1980; World Cup Football Competition, Western Germany 1974. Reading; Travelling; and Playing Tennies; Other extra-curricular acti vities: Deputy Chancellor Asaba Dio cese, Province of Nigeria (Anglican Church).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16211","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16211","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22747,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16211\/revisions\/22747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16211"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}