{"id":6127,"date":"2016-11-09T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6127"},"modified":"2017-11-27T09:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:52:06","slug":"allagoa-hrh-justice-ambrose-ezeolisa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/allagoa-hrh-justice-ambrose-ezeolisa\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLAGOA. (HRH) Justice Ambrose Ezeolisa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jurist, born August 24, 1914, Onitsha Anambra State; married, has five sons, three daughters;<br \/>\n Education: Government School Owerri, 1927, St Mary&#8217;s School, Port Har court, 1927-31, Christ the King College, Onit sha, 1932-36, Council of Legal Studies, Lon don, 1947-49;<br \/>\ncalled to the Bar, Lincoln&#8217;s Inn London; appointed Mayor of Port Harcourt 1948-61; engaged in private legal practice. Port Harcourt, 1949-62; appointed judge. High Court, defunct Eastern Region, 1962-67 Judge, High Court, Rivers State, 1971-76; appointed Chief Justice, Rivers State, 1976; former Pro-Chancellor, University of llorin, 1978; currently Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Owerri; Chairman, Cheshire Home, Port Harcourt;<br \/>\nLife Patron, Nigerian Red Cross; Trustee, Port Harcourt Club;<br \/>\nTraditional Title: The Amanyanabo of Nembe, Mingi XI, 1979; National Honour: conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, 1978; Foreign Honours: Knight of St. Gregory, Vatican, 1959; Grand Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester, Vatican, 1977;<br \/>\nHonorary Degree: awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LLD), University of ll orin, November 1988;<br \/>\nHobbies: golf, farming; Address: Plot 152, King Perekule Road, GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers State or The Amanyanabo&#8217;s Palace, Nembe, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165,389],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6127","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal","category-royalty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6127","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\/6127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}