{"id":6348,"date":"2016-11-14T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T08:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6348"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:46:22","slug":"aniagolu-justice-anthony-nnaemezie-christopher","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/aniagolu-justice-anthony-nnaemezie-christopher\/","title":{"rendered":"ANIAGOLU, (Justice) Anthony Nnaemezie Christopher"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> teacher, barris ter-at-Law, author, the Chief Judge, Anambra State; Born October 22, 1922 at Eke, Udi Division; Educa tion: St. Paul&#8217;s Elementary School, Eke; Government College, Umuahia, 1940; Christ the King College, Onit sha 1940-1944; taught Science, Christ the King College, Onitsha; obtained Inter-LL.B (London), as external student, 1948; studied law at Bristol University, Gray&#8217;s Inn, London, 1948-1952; obtained LL.B. (Hons), Bristol 1951; called to the Bar, July 1, 1952; Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court (Nigeria), July, 1952; practised law, 1952-1965; appointed Judge of the High Court, Eastern Nigeria, Sep tember 15, 1965; appointed and acted, Acting Chief Justice of East Central State, April, 1973-September, 1973; Acting Chief Justice, East Central State, 1975; Chief Judge, Anambra State, 1976; mem ber of the Federal Electoral Commi ssion; member of the Eastern Nigeria Electoral Commission, 1958-1965; Chairman, Eastern Nigeria Festival of Arts Committee; Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association, Enugu branch, 1962-1965; member of the Federal Nigeria Delimitation Com mission, 1963-64; member of the Magistrate&#8217;s Court Rules Commi ttee; member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council (Nigeria) 1962-1965; Chairman of the Board of Proprietors of Christ High School, Abor, Udi Division, 1958-1967; legal adviser to the Catholic Diocese of Enugu and Ogoja and the Eastern Nigeria Construction and Furniture Company Ltd, 1958-1965; appointed a Knight of the Nigerian Order of St. Mulumba (K.S.M), 1962; Officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (O.F.R), 1964; Chairman of the Eastern Nigeria Development Cor poration (ENDC) Commission of Inquiry, 1966-69; Knight of the Papal Order of St. Sylvester (K.S.S) 1967; wrote many Legal articles, including &#8220;Aspects of Customary Marriage and Divorce and their Incidents upon Family Life&#8221; 1974; &#8220;Law of Contempt of Court; Married with nine children? hobbies: Tennis golf, and badminton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6348","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6348","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\/6348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}