Former Minister of Justice Richard Akinjide Is Dead

Former minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation Chief Abimbola Osuolale Richard Akinjide is Dead. The 88-year-old legal icon died in his Ibadan, Oyo State, home.

A family source said he died around 1 am. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria had been indisposed for about three years.



According to a source close to the family, the remains of the legal luminary has been deposited at a morgue.

Born in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital in the early 1930s to an influential family of warriors, the late foremost lawyer and Ibadan high chief attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife from where he passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6).

He travelled to the United Kingdom in 1951 for his higher education and was called to the English Bar in 1955 and later to the Nigerian Bar. He established his law firm, Akinjide & Co soon after. He also did a lot of great works for the federal republic of Nigeria.

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