{"id":18464,"date":"2017-03-30T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18464"},"modified":"2017-07-26T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:40:27","slug":"udoma-sir-udo-egbert","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/udoma-sir-udo-egbert\/","title":{"rendered":"UDOMA, (Sir) Udo Egbert"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>barristerat- law, President of the Constituent Assembly, Judge of the Supreme Court; Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Born June 21, 1917, Ibekwe Ntanaran Akama, Cross River State; Education: Metho dist College, Uzuakoli; Trinity Col lege, University of Dublin; St. Catherine&#8217;s College, University of Oxford, England obtained LL.B. called to the Bar, Gray&#8217;s Inn, London 1945; private practice, 1946-61; member, House of Representatives, Lagos, 1952-59; judge, High Court, Lagos, 1961-63; chief justice of Uganda, 1963-69; national president, Ibibio State Union, 1947-63; mem ber, Nigeria Marketing Board, 1952- 54; member, Management Commit tee, West Africa Institute for Oil Palm Research, 1953-63; vice-presi dent, Nigerian Bar Association, 1957- 61; member, International Commis sion of Jurists, World Association of Judges; chairman, Board of Trustees, King George V Memorial Fund, 1964-69; patron, Nigeria Soci ety of International Law, 1968; holds traditional title of Obong Ikpa ress (Home): 10, Bedwell Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; (Office): Supreme Court, Lagos; Hobby: billiards, gar dening, walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18464","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18464","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18464"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}