Nigeria’s second republic Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, is dead.
National Infinity reports that Akinjide passed on at the age of 88 in his Ibadan residence, the Oyo State capital.
Akinjide, an Ibadan high chief, was born in Ibadan, in the early 1930s to an influential family of warriors.
It was gathered that the legal icon, who died of complications from a protracted illness around 1 am, had been sick for three years.
A family source told newsmen that Akinjide died on Tuesday morning at his Ibadan residence during a suspected age-related illness.
The Public Relations Officer of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Mr Toye Akinrinlola, confirmed to newsmen that the former Attorney General was brought in dead at about 2 am on Tuesday.
