{"id":17559,"date":"2017-03-24T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17559"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:39:52","slug":"rhodes-dr-chief-babashola-orobiyi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/rhodes-dr-chief-babashola-orobiyi\/","title":{"rendered":"RHODES, Dr. (Chief) Babashola Orobiyi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN; Barrister, Solicitor; p: Lagos; married, has three children; ed: Nursery, Primaryand Secondary School, BaptistAcademy, Lagos, 1948-61; Advanced Level GCE, Oxford Collegeof Technology, Headington, Oxford, 1961-62; Politics, Philosophy and Economics University College, Oxford, 1962-65; Admitted Middle Temple Innsof Court, London E.C, 1964; International Law at the Hague, 1966;Called to Bar-Middle Temple, 1967; Nigeria Law School, 1967-68; Degree of Doctor of LL.D by the Edo StateUniversity Ekpoma, EdoState; cr: Enrolled Barristerand Solicitorof the Supreme Court of Nigeria, 1968; Solecomm: by GhanaGovernment to look into the assets of Ghanaian aliens in Nigeria under the late presd. Busia&#8217;s government, 1972; Registered Notary Publicfor Nigeria, 1974; Councillor, Lagos City Council Caretaker Committee and ch: of City Libraries, Lagos, 1975; Panel Committeemem. by the Federal Government of Nigeria, for Clearance of Goodsof Seaports and International Airports, 1976; Legal consultant to the presd. African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d&#8217;lvoire, 1980; appointed by the Chief Justiceof Nigeriaamongst4 Barristers to arguemurderappealsin the Supreme Court as State Briefs, 1981; Appointed Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Gambia, 1982; Legal Assessor to the Disciplinary Committee of the Pharmacists Board of Nigeria, 1983; Committee mem. on matter of Prison Detainees awaiting trial, 1984; mm: Visitation Panel, Lagos State University by His Excellency Sir Michael Otedola, 1993, Eminent Persons Commission on June 12 presidential Electionby His Excellency Chief Ernest Shonekan, 1993; Secretary to the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, 1994;Sole Administrator, National Sports Commission, 1994-95; The Justice Mohammed Bello Endowment in Jurisprudence, 1996; Defence Counsel, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1997; Legal Assessor to the Disciplinary Tribunal, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, 2002; Principal Partner, Firm of Rhodes and Rhodes; dir. Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation,1991; ah: Honoured with a certificateof merit by The Nigerian Universities Engineering Scientific Forum of the Enugu State University of Scienceand Technology; Fatherof the Union,Students&#8217; Union Government University of Lagos; nh: Senior Advocate of Nigeria; tt: Sayero of Oyo (The upholder of the Kingdom); off: Rhodes and Rhodes, 17, KakawaStreet, Lagos, tel: 2646051-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17559","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17559","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}