A Look At Few Things To Know About Late Minister Of Justice, Bola Ajibola

Former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, died Saturday midnight after a long-time illness as a result of old age.

Prince Ajibola died at the age of 89.

His death was disclosed by his eldest child, Segun Ajibola, in a statement on Sunday in Abeokuta.

Below are few things to know about the late jurist;

• Born 22nd March 1934, Ajibola hailed from Owu, near Abeokuta, Ogun state, the Southwest region of Nigeria, and died 7th April 2023.
• Ajibola attended both Owu Baptist Day School and Baptist Boys’ High School in Abeokuta between 1942 and 1955.
• He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B) at the Holborn College of Law, University of London between 1959 and 1962.
• He was called to the English Bar at the Lincoln’s Inn in 1962. He returned to Nigeria to practise Law, specialising in Commercial Law and International Arbitration.
• Ajibola, a Nigerian jurist, became the Attorney General and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 under the regime of former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida.
• He also emerged as a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994.
• He was president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985.
• He was also one of five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, organised through the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
• From 1999 to 2002, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, he served as the High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom.
• Ajibola was chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State government to probe the 2008 Jos riots.
• He established an Islamic and co-educational institution, Crescent University, in Nigeria in 2005, and he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN).
• He attained numerous global recognitions which included; Association of World Lawyers

Commonwealth Law Association, Vice President, Institute of International Business Law and Practice, Paris

Vice-Chairman, International Court of Justice, The Hague (1991-1994); President, World Bank Administrative Tribunal

Judge, Constitution Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994-2002); Member, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID); and Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, among others.

BY IYABO AINA

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