{"id":17541,"date":"2017-03-24T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17541"},"modified":"2017-05-31T04:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T03:15:47","slug":"wai-ogusu-justice-solomon-akara","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/wai-ogusu-justice-solomon-akara\/","title":{"rendered":"WAI-OGUSU, Justice Solomon Akara"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, LL.B, retired jurist, born April 2, 1920, Onne Eleme, Rivers State; married, has children; Education: Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1925-36, Higher College, Yaba, 1937-40, London University (External Student), 1946, Manchester University, UK, 1954-57; Taught in various schools, September 1940-September 1954; Principal, K.N. College, Buguma, September 1943-May 1945; appointed Education Officer, 1951; called to the Bar, Gray&#8217;s Inn, London, November 1959; ap pointed State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Eastern Nigeria, 1962-67; Secretary, Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation (ENDC), 1967-70; State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Rivers State, January-June 1970; Principal State Counsel, July-August 1970; acting Solicitor- General, Ministry of Justice, Rivers State, 1970-71; acting High Court Judge, Rivers State, 1971-72; appointed High Court Judge, Rivers State, 1972-85: one-time acting Chief Judge, Rivers State: retired from tne Rivers state Judicial Service, April 2, 1985; appointed tradi tional ruler of Onne Eleme, Rivers State, since 1985; Address: Onne Eleme, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17541","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17541","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17541"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}