{"id":7150,"date":"2016-12-13T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7150"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T10:22:53","slug":"bamidele-hon-michael-opeyemi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bamidele-hon-michael-opeyemi\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMIDELE, Hon. Michael Opeyemi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BA, LLB, B.L, LLM, FCM; legal practitioner, politician; administrator; b: July 29,1963; hi: lyim Ekiti; so: Ekiti,m: Mrs.OluyemisiBamidele,haschildren; ed: EgbaOwodeGrammar School,OwodeAbeokuta;BaptistAcademy,Obanikoro, Lagos; Universityof Ife, 1986;Universityof Benin, 1990;NigerianLawSchool, 1992; Franklin Pierce LawCentre, USA, 1996;en Principal Partner, LawOfficeofOpeyemi Bamidele&#038;Associates, since 1992;SpecialAsst. (Legal),to the Chairman, SenateCommitteeon Finance, Appropriation&#038;Banking,1992-93; Probono Consulting Attorney&#038; Human Rights Expert on Nigeria, Harvard Law School Immigration ClinicatGBLS, Boston, USA, 1997-2000; StaffAttorney, Refugee Law Centre, Boston, USA, 1997-2000; Senior Special Asst. to the Lagos StateGovernor on Political &#038; Inter-Governmental Relations, 2000; Special AdviserPolitical to DeputyGovernor, 2003; Hon. Commissioner for Youth, Sports &#038;Social Development, Lagos State, 2003-07; Hon. Comm., Information &#038; Strategy, Lagos State,since2007;Active Student Unionist andwasarrested severallyby the militarydictatorship between,1985-94; ch., UniversityofBeninStudentsUnion, 1988-89; National President National Associationof Nig. Students (NANS), 1988-90; f: Chartered Instituteof Arbitrators; Active mem Nigerian Human Right Community, since 1982; mm: Nigerian Bar Association, NBA; American BarAssociation,ABA; International BarAssociation, IBA; Technology Transfer Society, TTS; AmericanIntellectual PropertyLawyersAssociation;International Law&#038; Practice Section,NewYork StateBarAssociation; Co-Dir., US Based Human Rights&#038;Refugee Project; publ: Feature Writer&#038;Major Contributor inNig. Newspapers, since 1984; award: Defender ofDemocracyAward, National Association ofNigeria Students (NANS); Distinguished Youth Leadership Award, Rotary Club ofIsolo; Distinguished Alumni Award tor Outstanding Public Service, Obafemi Awolowo University Alumni Association, Lagos State; Merit Award for his Immeasurable Contribution to Development, Lagos Lawn tennis Club; Media Group Merit Award ad a Distinguished Political Activist by Ekiti Parapo Media Group; Award ofExcellence by National Sports MeritAward; Gold Award, Leadership Development Centre; Pillar of Sports Gold Award, I3ATCO Mandate Group; Award ofExcellence. Justice Forum; Award ofHonour. Nigeria Referees Association; 2004 Distinguished AlumnusAward ofthe FacultyofArts ofObafemi Awolowo University, Ilc-Ile; pp: SDP, Mouse ol&#8217;Rcps Candidate. Oshodi\/lsolo Federal Constituency, 1992; National Accreditation Officer, SDP National Convention. Jos, 1993; Active mem, NADECO, since 1994; AD National Director of Publicity, 2000-04; hob: reading, meeting people, travelling, playing football; off: Lagos State Ministry of Information &#038;Strategy, Block 4.TheSecretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7150","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\/7150","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\/7150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}