{"id":7243,"date":"2016-12-19T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7243"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:18:52","slug":"bassey-peter-odo-effiong","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bassey-peter-odo-effiong\/","title":{"rendered":"BASSEY, Peter Odo Effiong"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LLB, Lawyer, born January 7, 1923, Oban Town, Cross River State; married Lorina Claire Dickson 1958, two sons, six daughters; Education: Big Qua School, Calabar, 1931-33, St Michael&#8217;s School, Oban 1935-37, Sacred Heart School\/College, Calabar, 1938-42, University of Hull, England, 1955-58, Called to the Bar at Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, London, 1958; Chairman, Board of Enquiry into Loss of Hull University Students&#8217; Funds 1958; First High Court Judge, South Eastern State (now Cross River and Akwa Ibom states), 1968-72; in private legal practice, 1958-68, and since 1972; member. General Council of the Nigerian Bar, 1962-63; Political Parties: Foundation member, defunct Zikist Movement 1946; member. National Execuitve and Eastern Nigeria Legal Adviser, defunct Action Group, 1960-66; member and National Legal Adviser, banned Great Nigeria People&#8217;s Party 1979-80; member, Port Har court Rotary Club, 1963-66; President, Port Harcourt Lions Club, 1980-81; Traditional Titles: The Ntoe Okpoho of Big Qua Town. Calabar; The Isung Asian of Oban; Publica tion: &#8220;\/ Call For Justice&#8221; (Dossier of the Sack ing of a Nigerian High Court Judge), (Port Harcourt, Tarbas Press, 1980); Hobbies: gold, reading, sports, movies; Official Address: Nsaha Chambers, 30, Harold Wilson Drive, PO Box 812. Port Harcourt; Telephone: (084) 331961; Home: 30 Harold Wilson Drive, Port Harcourt. Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7243","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7243","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\/7243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}