{"id":6498,"date":"2016-11-15T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6498"},"modified":"2017-12-05T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T15:08:23","slug":"ardo-alhaji-muhammadu-buba","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ardo-alhaji-muhammadu-buba\/","title":{"rendered":"ARDO, (Alh) Muhammadu Buba"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> barrister-at-law, civil servant, high court judge, Chief Judge, Bauchi, Borno and Gongola states. Deputy Chairman, Constituent Assembly; Education: Kaduna College (now Barewa College) 1943-1947; joined Nigerian civil service as co-operative inspector, Sept. 23, 1948 and atten ded Co-operative School, Ibadan, 1949-50; University College, Ibadan, for special course in Latin and Roman History, 1951-52; Inns of Court School of Law, London, 1953- 1\u00a756; attained degree of Utter Barrister; called to the English Bar, Feb. 5, 1957; appointed clerk assis tant, old Northern Nigeria House of Assembly for about six months from July 1957; crown counsel in that region&#8217;s civil service, 1958-61; senior crown counsel, 1961-63; deputy solicitor-general, 1963-64; solicitorgeneral 1964-66 and attorney-genetal, 1966-67; on creation of twelve states, appointed attorney-general and commissioner for justice, North- Eastern State of Nigeria, 1967 &#8211; October 1975; appointed chief jus tice of the state, November 1, 1975; on the split of the former North- Eastern State into three states in 1976, continued as Chief Judge of the three states \u2014Bauchi, Borno and Gongola; published few papers on constitutional and legal matters; awarded Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) in 1965; Married and has eight children; Address (Home): 2, Talba Road, G.R.A., Maiduguri; (Office): Chief Judge&#8217;s Chambers, High Court of Justice, P.M.B. 1230, Maiduguri; Hobby: farming and cattle-rearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[219],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6498","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-civil-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6498","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\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}