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List Of Senior Advocates Of Nigeria
This is a list of notable Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, arranged in alphabetical order. A * Eyimofe Atake Senior Advocate of Nigeria * Anthony Ajibola Aribisala * Abubakar Malami, current Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria * Solomon Adun Asemota is a Nigerian lawyer. Mohammed zakariya Umar future naval officer B *Bayo Ojo, former Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. *Babatunde Raji Fashola, former Executive Governor of Lagos State *Bola Ajibola, former Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. *Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC C *Chimezie Ikeazor is a Nigerian lawyer D *Damilola Sunday Olawuyi, Professor of Law and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti E *Ernest Ojukwu, Professor of Law, former Deputy Director-General and Head Nigerian Law School * Eyitayo Jegede, Former Attorney General and Commissione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senior Advocate Of Nigeria
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is a title that may be conferred on legal practitioners in Nigeria of not less than ten years' standing and who have distinguished themselves in the legal profession. It is the equivalent of the rank of Queen's Counsel in the United Kingdom, from which Nigeria became History of Nigeria#Independence, independent in 1960 (History of Nigeria#First Republic, Republic 1963), as well as in South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Canada (except Ontario and Quebec). Several countries use similar designations such as Senior Counsel, President's Counsel, State Counsel, Senior Advocate, and President's Advocate. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria is said to have been admitted to the "Inner Bar", as distinguished from the "Outer", or "Utter", Bar, consisting of junior advocates (''See Call to the bar''). The conferment is made in accordance with the Legal Practitioners Act 207 Section 5 (1) by the Legal Practitioners' Privileges Committee, headed by the Chief Jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Ojukwu
Ernest Maduabuchi Ojukwu (born September 23, 1960), is a past Deputy Director-General and Head of Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani Enugu. Before his appointment, he was Associate Professor and Dean Faculty of Law, Abia State University, Uturu from 1995-2001. He is also the President of the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI Nigeria), the platform through which he has continued to achieve his dreams of promoting clinical legal education and reform of legal education in Nigeria. Background Ernest Ojukwu hails from Ahaba Imenyi in Isuikwuato Local Government of Abia State in South East Nigeria. He attended the Methodist College Uzuakoli and Government College Umuahia. Ojukwu is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife where he received the Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws Degrees in 1983 and 1987 respectively. He also obtained a certificate on Alternative Dispute Resolution from the University of California Sacramento Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Chiroma
Isa Hayatu Chiroma (13 April 1963) is Nigeria legal practitioner and professor of law at the University of Maiduguri. In February 2018, he is appointed as the Director General of the Nigeria Law School by Muhammadu Buhari. He replaced Professor Olanrewaju Onadeko who served for eight year. Prior to be appointed, he was the deputy director in the Yola campus of Nigeria Law School from 2011 to 2016. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, ranked at the 133 plenary session meetings in 2018. Background Isa Hayatu was born in Mubi of Mubi North Local Government, Adamawa State. He began his early school in 1970 at Mubi Primary School to 1976 and moved to Government Technical School Mubi in 1976 to 1981. He obtained his bachelor's of law degree in 1986 and masters of law in 1991 from the University of Maiduguri, and holds a PhD of law in 2005 at the University of Jos. Career He started as an assistant lecturer in the faculty of law at the University of Maiduguri in 1988 teaching ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Chieftaincy
The Nigerian Chieftaincy is the chieftaincy system that is native to Nigeria. Consisting of everything from the country's monarchs to its titled family elders, the chieftaincy as a whole is one of the oldest continuously existing institutions in Nigeria and is legally recognized by its government. History Nigerian pre-colonial states tended to be organized as city-states. The empires that did exist, like the Kanem-Borno empire, the Oyo empire, the Benin empire and the Sokoto caliphate, were essentially coalitions of these individual city-states. Due to this, a great deal of local power was concentrated in the hands of rulers that remained almost permanently in their capitals. These rulers had sacred functions - a number of them were even considered to be sacred themselves - and therefore often lived in seclusion as a result. Their nobles, both hereditary and otherwise, typically also had functions that were tied to the religious traditions of the kingdoms that they s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Odein Ajumogobia
Henry Odein Ajumogobia (born 29 June 1956) is a Nigerian lawyer who served as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources between 2007 and 2009 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2010 to July 2011. He was also Head of Nigeria's delegation to OPEC from July 2007 to December 2008. In August 1983, Ajumogobia and Christopher Nonyelum Okeke founded a legal firm, Ajumogobia and Okeke. Biography Education Henry Odein Ajumogobia attended the following schools : LL.B (Lagos) Faculty (Prizes for best graduating student, and subject prizes; Federal Government of Nigeria merit award for Academic Excellence at the University of Lagos 975–1978; B.L Nigeria Law School (1979); LL.M (Harvard) (1988) University of Lagos Law Society Award for distinction in the legal profession; Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London, 1996); LL.D (Honoris Causa) former Rivers State University of Science and Technology, now Rivers State University (2012). Career: Teaching Assistant, Fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gani Fawehinmi
Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi, , (22 April 1938 – 5 September 2009) was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, and politician. He held the chieftaincy title of the Lamofin of Ondo. Early life Saheed and Munirat Fawehinmi of Ondo, in Ondo State. His father, Chief Saheed Tugbobo Fawehinmi, the Seriki Musulumi of Ondo, was a successful timber trader, philanthropist, civic activist and muslim chieftain of the Yoruba people. He was reported to be a follower of Ajao, who brought Islam to Ondo City, southwestern Nigeria. Chief Saheed Tugbobo Fawehinmi died on 5 February 1963 at the age of 89 years. Gani's grandfather was the late Chief Lisa Alujanu Fawehinmi of Ondo, who engaged in several successful battles for and on behalf of the Ondo people in the nineteenth century. Hence, the appellation the 'Alujanun', which means spirit. He died at the age of 92. Education Gani had his early education at Ansar-Ud-Deen P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festus Keyamo
Festus Egwarewa Keyamo (born 21 January 1970) is a Nigerian lawyer, columnist and human rights activist who serves as the minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development of Nigeria. In April 2018, Keyamo was appointed as the director of Strategic Communications of the 2019 re-election bid of President Buhariand later appointed minister of State for Labour and Employment. Early life He was born on January 21, 1970, at Ughelli, a town in Delta State southern Nigeria but his father hails from Effurun, a city in Delta. Keyamo had his primary education at Model Primary School and secondary education at Government College, Ughelli, where he obtained the West African School Certificate in 1986. He later proceeded to Ambrose Alli University at Ekpoma, in Edo State southern Nigeria where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1992 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in December 1993. Legal career He began his legal career in 1993 at Gani Fawehinmi's Chambers in Lagos State, southweste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenna Partners
Kenna Partners, typically shortened to Kenna is one of Nigeria's leading law firms headquartered in Lagos, with offices in Abuja and Enugu. The firm is known for its work in dispute resolution and specialized transactions in energy, telecommunications, and financial services. The firm is regulated by the General Council of the Bar. History Founded in 1993 as Kenna & Associates and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, the firm underwent a restructuring to become Kenna Partners in 2011. In the year 2013, the firm celebrated its 20th anniversary with the presentation of a book titled ‘Law & Society’ authored by Fabian Ajogwu SAN (Senior Partner in the firm) and presented by Dr Christopher Kolade CON. The firm marked its 25th anniversary in 2018 with the presentation of the book ''Brief Insights: A Selection of Milestone Cases'', authored by the firm. In 2023, the firm announced a leadership change with the appointment of a Managing Partner and Deputy Managing Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabian Ajogwu
Fabian Ikenna Ajogwu, OFR, SAN (born June 1970), is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, legal author, and governance advisor. He is Nigeria's first professor of corporate governance and holds a full professorship with the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, where he has taught continuously since 2000. Early years and education Fabian Ikenna Ajogwu, OFR, SAN, FCArb was born on 23 June 1970, at the end of the Civil War, to Dr. Michael Ajogwu, SAN, and Mrs. Caroline Ajogwu. His father, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (K.C. Equivalent), served as the Attorney General of Enugu State; and his mother retired as a School Principal in Enugu. Ajogwu had his formative education at the University of Nigeria Primary School, St. Louis School, Kano, and Federal Government College, Kano. An Alumnus of the Lagos Business School and Said Business School of Oxford University, Professor Ajogwu holds a Ph.D. in Law (corporate governance) from the Taylor School of Law, University of Aberdeen, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Rotimi Williams
Chief Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, QC, SAN (16 December 1920 – 26 March 2005) was a prominent Nigerian lawyer who was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. In the 1950s, he was a member of the Action Group and subsequently became the minister for local government and justice. He was the president of the Nigerian Bar Association in 1959, the association is the leading body for lawyers in the country. He left politics in the 1960s, as a result of the political crisis in the Western Region of Nigeria. Throughout his career, he was involved in some memorable and important court cases, such as Lakanmi vs the Western Government of Nigeria, which set the precedent that a military government could not use its power to make laws that will appropriate an individuals property. The Oloye Williams, himself a Yoruba chieftain, was also among a group of lawyers that represented the Oba of Lagos, Adeniji Adele, against challenges by the Nigerian National Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folake Solanke
Chief Folake Solanke (born 29 March 1932), SAN, CON, is a Nigerian lawyer, administrator, and social critic. She is the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the first Nigerian female lawyer to wear the silk gown as Senior Counsel. She is the first Commissioner of Western State and is a former Chairperson of the Western Nigeria Television Broadcasting Corporation (WNTBC). She was the 42nd and the first African International President of Zonta International, an international service organization that focus primarily on advancing the status of women. The 43rd International President was also African. Early life Solanke was born on 29 March 1932 in the family of late Pa. J.S Odulate at Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State in southwestern Nigeria. From 1937 to 1939, Solanke attended Ago Oko primary school. From 1940 to 1944, she attended Emo Girls School in Abeokuta. From 1945 to 1949, she attended Methodist Girls' High School Lagos, where she took first prize in Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femi Falana
Femi Falana, SAN (born 20 May 1958)In the town of Ilawe, Ekiti State He is a Nigerian lawyer and Human right activist.He is also the father to Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz. Femi Falana is a well-known activist for human rights, always trying to show sympathy towards people.Femi Falana is well known for opposing oppression, from successive military authorities. Education Femi Falana was a student of St. Michael’s School from 1963 to 1968. After finishing from this school, Femi Falana attended Sacred Heart Catholic Seminary from 1971 – 1975, He began his legal practice in 1982. After finishing his law practice in 2012, Femi Falana became a Senior Advocate in Nigeria he graduated from the University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife Osun State. He is a Principal Partner at Falana&Falana Chambers which he runs with Funmi Falana his wife. He contested and lost the governorship election of Ekiti State in 2007 on the platform of the National Conscience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
