Richard Akinjide, former Justice Minister is dead

The Former Minister of Justice in the second Republic, Chief  Richard Akinjide,(SAN), who is the oldest lawyer in Nigeria today has been reported dead.

The cause of death still remain sketchy.


Akinjide who was also a former Minister of Education in the Government of Prime Minister Tafawa  practiced law for over 60 years and has stated severally that there is no retirement in legal profession.


The late legal luminary was born in 1930 in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, attended St. Peter’s Primary School, Aremo in Ibadan, before proceeding to  Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife from where he passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6).


In 1951 Akinjide travelled to the United Kingdom  for his higher education, where he  studied for his LLB degree in Law at the University of London and also obtained a certificate in Journalism,and called to the English Bar in 1955.


The deceased was subsequently called to the Nigeria.