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Bode Rhodes-Vivour (born 22 March 1951) is a Nigerian
jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
and former justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


Early life

Bode Rhodes-vivour was born on 22 March 1951 in
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, a city in western
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. to the family of Mr and Mrs
Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour Chief Akinwunmi R.W. Rhodes-Vivour (1910–1987) was a Nigerian Judge and an influential personality in Midwest Nigeria. Early life A son of Garnet Vivour and Sarah Rhodes de Vivour, Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour was born on 8 July 1910, in Lagos Isl ...
. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Lagos in 1974 and was
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in 1975 after graduating from the
Nigerian Law School The Nigerian Law School is an educational institution set up by the Government of Nigeria in 1962 to provide a Nigerian legal education to foreign-trained lawyers, and to provide practical training for aspiring Legal Practitioners in Nigeria. ...
. In 1983, he received a certificate in Legislative Drafting from the
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under the Commonwealth Programme.


Law career

In 1975, he joined the
Lagos State Judiciary The Lagos State Judiciary is one of the three co-equal branches of the Lagos State Government organized under the Constitution of Nigeria and laws of Lagos State. The Chief Judges are appointed by the State Governor with the consent of the House of ...
as State Counsel and became Director of Public Prosecutions in 1989. He was appointed a High Court Judge in 1994 and in 2005 appointed to the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justic

In August 2010, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria along with Justice Suleiman Galadima.


Personal life

He is married to Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour.


See also

* List of Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeals


References

1951 births Nigerian jurists People from Lagos University of Lagos alumni Nigerian Law School alumni Living people Supreme Court of Nigeria justices {{Nigeria-bio-stub