Gbajabiamila mourns Akinjide

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has described the demise of a former Attorney General of the Federation and former Minister for Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN) as a painful loss.Gbajabiamila said Chief Akinjide lived an exemplary life worthy of emulation, especially by the upcoming generation of lawyers in the country.In a condolence message by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, the Speaker recalled the contributions of the legal luminary to the law profession in Nigeria.The Speaker said his thoughts and prayers at…

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Ex-Attorney General, Akinjide is dead

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…

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