{"id":7308,"date":"2016-12-21T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7308"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:14:29","slug":"bello-the-hon-justice-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bello-the-hon-justice-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"BELLO, The Hon. Justice Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> born in 1930 at Katsina;Schools attended: 1938-42 Central Elementary School, Katsina; 1942-45 Middle Sch ool, Katsina; 1945-48 Kaduna College; 1951-52 Special student at University College, Ibadan; 1953-55 at the Inns of Court, London and was called to the Bar in Lincoln&#8217;s Inn in September 1955; 1962-63 Special student at Harward Law School, Massachussetts; Appointment Held: 28th Feb. 1956; Employed by the former Northern Nigeria Government as Pupil Crown Counsel; 1958-1959: Reading in Chambers at Middle Temple, London; 1st April, 1961: Promoted Senior State Counsel, Northern Nigeria; 1st July, 1961; Transferred to Judicial Department as Chief Magistrate, Northem Nigeria; 1st March, 1964; Appo inted Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Nigeria; 14th March, 1966: Appointed a Judge of the High Court, Northern Nigeria; 19th December, 1968: Promoted Senior Puisne Judge of the former North-Central and Kwara States; 1969-1975; Acted on several occasions as Chief Justice of the Northern States; 9th October, 1975: Appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court; Other Activities: 1980 to date: Chairman of the Go verning Body of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; 1978 to date: Chairman of St. John Council of Nigeria; 1981-1982; Chairman of the Body of Benchers; National Commis sioner of the Sheriff Guards of Nigeria; Member of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs; Member of the Commonwealth Magistrates&#8217; Associa tion; Member of the Harward Lavard Law&#8217;School Association; Married with children; Hobbies inlcude rambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7308","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7308","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\/7308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7308"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}