Category: Law – General
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Alao Aka-Bashorun; President of the Nigerian Bar Association and one of the most prominent democracy activists of the General Babangida era. Aka-Bashorun was actively involved with the Beninois national conference lobby, which was responsible for putting together the Sovereign National Conference that resulted in the collapse of the Kerekou regime. In the 1980s, his law…
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Federalism; is a multination-state response to ethno-cultural diversity, or partnership of various groups, each of which retains its distinctiveness and its right to autonomy or self-government. In this system, the country is divided into several sub-units whose borders are drawn in such a way that each of the various groups will form a local majority…
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Bola Ige; lawyer, politician and writer, acclaimed as Cicero for his oratorical prowess and erudition. Ige became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 1997. He was assassinated on December 23, 2001 in his Bodija, Ibadan residence having left Abuja to wind down in his home stead for Christmas. Ige was member of the Alliance for…
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Ignatus Pats-Acholonu, Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court. Acholonu, was born July 15, 1937. He was called to the English Bar in 1963 and the Nigerian Bar in 1964. He worked at the Ministry of Justice between 1964 and 1974, and was appointed solicitor-general in 1979. Acholonu was appointed judge of Imo State High Court…
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Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams; Lawyer and member of the British Institute of Comparative Law. F.R.A. Williams is the first Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the defunct Western Region. Born on December 16, 1920 to Thomas Ekundayo Williams, himself, a lawyer, and Lande Williams, F.R.A. attended CMS Grammar School, Lagos, 1934-38 and Selwyn College,…
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Mustapha Akanbi; Nigerian judge of the Federal High Court, later president of the Court of Appeal, renowned for good records and deep sense of history. Three years to the expiration of his tenure as the president of the court of appeal, Akanbi, to the consternation of many Nigerians, resigned in 1999. As the grey-haired judge…
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Gani FAWEHINMI; Lawyer and renowned human rights activist. With his group, the National Conscience, formed in 1994, Gani Fawehinmi fought the cause of democracy following Nigeria’s June 12 1993 debacle. He also collaborated NADECO two years later in organizing rallies where he famously dared policemen. Fawehinmi’s struggle in 1998 was of total revolution and not…
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Jadesola Akande; Law professor and first female Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, in 1989. Born November 15, 1938, Jadesola who is daughter of a lawyer father and a teacher mother is the third of her parents’ four children. She wanted to read dentistry after her secondary school at St. Anne’s, Ibadan, but…
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Atanda Fatai-Williams; Legal luminary, one of the delegate to London which historically decided the design for the robe of the Nigerian Chief Judge. Fatai-Williams was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1967. He served as Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983. After staying abroad for 6 years since his first…
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Omotunde Ilori; Justice and former Chief Judge of Lagos state, Nigeria. Ilori showed interest in litigation and adjudication during his legal career which began in 1964. In his position as the Chief Judge, Ilori introduced automatic stenographic recording machines and the computerisation of operational system into the machinery of justice in Nigeria. Places of Growth…
