{"id":6726,"date":"2016-11-16T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6726"},"modified":"2017-11-28T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:56:47","slug":"awogu-dr-francis-olisa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/awogu-dr-francis-olisa\/","title":{"rendered":"AWOGU, Prof. Francis Olisa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, LL.D, M.A, Ph.D, jurist, born July 29, 1928, Ossomala, Bendel State; married Dorothy Onoh Obiora 1955, three sons, one daughter; Education: St Gregory&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1941-45, University of London, 1957-60, Howard University, Washington D.C, 1967-72, called to the Bar, Gray&#8217;s Inn, Lon don, 1960; Principal, Hussey College, Warri, 1954-58; Assistant Professor, Howard Univer sity, USA, 1971-72; Assistant Professor, Kan sas University, Kansas, USA, 1970; Legal Adviser, Federal Ministry of Justice, 1973-76; Chief Registrar, Court of Appeal, 1976-77; Judge, High Court, Anambra State; appointed Justice, Court of Appeal since 1987; Tradi tional Title: Odogwu Abi of Ossomala; Publication: Political Institutions and Thoughts in Africa (New York, Vantage Press, 1973), Civil Proceedings By and Against the State in Nigeria (Onitsha, Pacific College Press, 1981); The Judiciary in the Second Republic of Nigeria, (Onitsha, Pacific College Press, 1984); Hobbies: writing, gardening; Of ficial Address: Court of Appeal, 1B Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 685040; Home: 30A Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 683189.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6726","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6726","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\/6726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}