{"id":7682,"date":"2017-01-12T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7682"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:56:03","slug":"obianwu-obiora-akinwumi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obianwu-obiora-akinwumi\/","title":{"rendered":"OBIANWU, Obiora Akinwumi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN, LLB, BL; legal practitioner, consultant; b: January 29, 1962; p: Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State; so: Anambra; m: Chinyere Ijeoma Obianwu; nc: four; ed: St. Patrick&#8217;s College, Asaba, Delta State, 1973-75; Immaculate Conception College, Benin City, Edo State, 1975-77; University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1980-83; Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos, 1983-84; called to the Nigeria Bar, 1984; cr: Counsel attached to the office of the Attorney General, Federal Ministry of Justice,Abuja, 1984-85; Partner, Obianwu, Nwokedi &#038;Co., Legal Practitioners, Aba, Abia State, 1985-96; Principal Partner and Managing Solicitor, Obianwu, Nwokedi &#038; Co., Aba, since 1996; conferred with Senior Advocate of Nigeria, 2003; Consultant to Bureau of Public Enterprise on privatization Programme; Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC; Counsel to Royal Exchange Assurance Pic; Guinness Nigeria Pic, Consolidated Breweries Pic; Nigeria Bottling Co.; Patterson Zochonis Pic; Union Bank of Nigeria Pic; Chevron Nigeria PIc; Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited; African Continental Bank PIc; Aba Textile Mills Pic; Aba Sports Club; National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria; International Equitable, Industrial and Commercial Company Limited; mm: Nigeria Bar Association; awards: Oputa Chambers of Justice Award, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, for contributions to Chambers; NBA honours award in recognition of sterling and unparalleled contribution to the legal profession, 2003; Excellence in Legal Practice and Defence of Justice Award, Onitsha Improvement Union, Port Harcourt, 2003; publ: Legislation in Abia State- Set Back to Administration of Justice and Rule of Law, 1998; sc: Aba Sports Club; hob: squash, reading, movies; off: Obianwu, Nwokedi &#038; Co., 78, Pound Road, Aba, Abia State; tel: 08037239427,08055868481; tel\/fax: 082-220090; e-m: obiobianwu@yahoo.com; res: 7B, Uche Street, Aba, Abia State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7682","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7682","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}