{"id":7498,"date":"2017-01-11T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T08:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7498"},"modified":"2017-05-26T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T10:05:50","slug":"obaseki-mr-justice-andrew-otutu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obaseki-mr-justice-andrew-otutu\/","title":{"rendered":"OBASEKI (Mr. Justice) Andrew Otutu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, LLB, BL.OFR, jurist b; June 11,1926;bt: Benin City,so: Edo;m: Winnifred Solabomi  Oguntotu, 1952; nc:nines, sixd; ed:Government School, Benin City, 1931-36; Edo College, Benin City, 1937-40; Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 194042; School of Agriculture, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, 1943-45; University of Reading, UK, 1945-48; University of London, UK, 1948-51;Council of Legal Education,London,1949-52; Called to the Bar,Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, 1952. en Agricultural Assistant 1943-45; engaged in Private Legal Practice, 1952- 58;Staff Solicitor, Nigerian Building Society, 1958; presd. GradeA Customary Court, Benin City, 1958-63; Supervising Authority,Customary Courts, Benin City, Ishan, Asaba, 1960-63; Chief Registrar, High Court, Mid Western Region,now Edo and Delta,States, 1963-64; Judge,HighCourtofBendel State, 1964-75; ag.ChiefJustice,BendelState, 1970-74; ag.Justice ofthe Supreme Court, 1975-77;Justice of the Supreme Court, 1977;ag. Chief Justice of Nigeria, 1987. nh: Conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger, 1980. hob: gardening, photography, res: Benin City,Edo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7498","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7498","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7498\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}