{"id":9965,"date":"2017-02-07T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9965"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:40:20","slug":"craig-justice-ebenezer-babasanya","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/craig-justice-ebenezer-babasanya\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAIG Justice Ebenezer Babasanya"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LLB, BL, Jurist bom July 25, 1924, Ebute Metta, Lagos State; married Theresa BalPereira 1952, one son, six daughters; Edu cation: MrsF Kuti&#8217;sClass, Grammar School, Abeokuta, Elizabeth Fowler Memorial School, Yaba 1932-33, Emmanuel School, Ado-Ekiti, 1934-37, Christ School, Ado- Ekiti, 1938; Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, 1939-44, Lincoln&#8217;s Inn Court School of Law, London, 1949-52, Council of Legal Educa tion; London, 1952; Career: Called to the Bar, Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, London, 1952; Third Class Clerk, Administrator- General&#8217;s Office, Lagos, 1945-50; engaged in Private Legal Practice, 1952-67; Part-time Lecturer in Law, Nigerian College of Arts and Technology, Ibadan, (formerly University of Ife, Now Obafemi Awolowo University), He Ife, 1955- 60; appointed Judge, High Court, defunct Western State, 1967-76; served in the Judi cial Division, Ibadan, 1968-70,1974-76, Ekiti Judicial Division, Ado-Ekiti, 1970-72, Oyo Judicial Division, 1972-74; Chairman, Armed Robbery and Firearms Tribunal, de funct Western State, 1970-75; appointed Chief Judge of Ogun State, 1976-87; ap pointedJustice ofthe Supreme Court ofNi geria, 1987-89; retired from the Supreme Court, 1989; chairman, Election Tribunal, BauchiState, 1979;Statutorymember, Board ofGovernors, Nigerian InstituteofAdvanced Legal Studies, Lagos; Executive member, All Nigeria Bar Association, 1964-68;member, in Council ofNigeria, 1965-68; President, Boys Scout ofNigeria (Ogun State Branch), since 1977; member, Ibadan Dinning Club; member, Ibadan Tennis Club; National Honour: conferred with the Commander of the Order ofthe Niger; Hobbies: lawn ten nis, gardening, swimming; Official Address: c\\oSupreme Court ofNigeria, Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9965","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9965","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\/9965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}