{"id":7290,"date":"2016-12-20T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7290"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T10:03:34","slug":"bello-justice-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bello-justice-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"BELLO, Justice Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jurist, born 1930, Katsina, Katsina State; married Zainah Abubakar Gumi and Daula Salem, seven sons, five daughters; Education: Central Elementary School, Katsina, 1938-43, Middle School, Kastina, 1942-45, Managerin- Training at UAC, University College, Ibadan, 1945-48 (Special Student to Study Latin, Preparatory to Law Study), Inn of Court, London, 1953-55, Chambers of Middle Temple 1958-59, Harvard Law School, Massachucetts, USA, 1962-63; called to the Bar in Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, 1955; Ca reer: Appointed Pupil Crown Counsel, Northern Nigeria Government, 1956; Chief Magistrate, Northern Nigeria, 1961; ap pointed Director of Public prosecutions, Northern Nigeria, 1964; Judge, High Court, Northern Nigeria, 1966; promoted Senior Puisne Judge, North-Central (now Kaduna State) and Kwara States, 1961; acting Chief BELLO Justice of the Northern States, 1969-75; ap pointed Justice of the Supreme Court, 1975; appointed and sworn-in as Chief Justice of Nigeria, 1987; Also served short-term ap pointments: as Legal Secretary, Camerouns, under the British Mandate, 1961; Deputy Commissioner for Native Courts, 1965; Chairman, Electricity Corporation of Nige ria Commission ofInquiry, 1966: Chairman, North Central State Rehabilitation Commis sion, 1968-70; Chairman, Visitation Panels of the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos, 1971; Chairman, Kano Air Disaster Commis sion of Inquiry, 1973; Chairman, St John Council of Nigeria, 1978; Chairman, Gov erning Council, Nigerian Institute of Ad vanced Legal Studies, University of Lagos, since 1980; Chairman, Body of Benchers, 1981-82; Former Chief Justice of the Fed eral Republic ofNigeria; National Commis sioner, Sheriff Guards of Nigeria; member, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs; member, Commonwealth Magistrates Asso ciation; member, Harvard Law School As sociation; member, Permanent Court of Ar bitration, The Hague, The Netherlands; fel low, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; National Honour: conferred with Commander of the Order of Niger; Honor ary Degree: awarded Honorary Doctor of Law, University of Ibadan, 1987; Doctor of Law Ahmadu Bello University; Hobbies: reading, rambling; Address: Katsina, Katsina State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7290","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7290","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\/7290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}