{"id":17049,"date":"2017-03-23T06:40:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17049"},"modified":"2017-06-08T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:05:46","slug":"nwokedi-justice-paul-kemdilim","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwokedi-justice-paul-kemdilim\/","title":{"rendered":"NWOKEDI, (Justice) Paul Kemdilim"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tutor, legal practitioner, Judge of the High Court, Anambra State; Born November 3, 1926, at lyi-Enu Ogidi; Education: Holy Trinity Sch ool, Onitsha, 1934-1939; St. Gre gory&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1940-1945; London Matriculation, 1946; Univer sity of London (external) passed B. A., degree; Inns of Court Law School, London, 1956-1959, Bar finals, December, 1958; called to the Bar, 1959; &#8211; London School of Economics and Political Science, 1957-1959, passed LL.B. Hons. (Uni versity of London); Career history: former department of Lands and Survey, Lagos and Enugu as SubInspector of Lands, 1946-1949; tutor, Metropolitan College, Onitsha, and Merchant of Lights School, Oba, 1949-1952; member, National ist Youth Movements 1945-1953; member, Zikist Movement 1945; Secretary of the NCNC, 1949- 1952; land officer. Ministry of Lands (former Eastern Region) 1955-1956; member, Nigerian Union of Students, 1959; chairman, Nigerian Philosophi cal Society, London, 1957-1959; legal practitioner, since December, 1959, appointed Judge of the High Court (former East Central State), October, 1974; Co-founder of the Nigeria-Soviet Friendship Associa tion, 1966-1967;Co-founder, Central Committee and Politburo of the Socialist Workers and farmers Party, until 1966; Married with 5 children, 2 girls and 3 boys; Hobbies: Classical music, fishing; Home Add ress: 5 Ridge Road, Onitsha; Office address: The High Court ONitsha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17049","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17049","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\/17049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17049"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}