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Richard Akinjide
Nigerian lawyer and politician (1930-2020)
ChiefOsuolale Abimbola Richard Akinjide, SAN (4 November 1930 – 21 April 2020) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician.[1] He served as the minister of education in the First Republic and the minister of justice in the Second Republic.
Biography
Born in Ibadan in 1930, Chief Akinjide belonged to a family with links to the Nigerian chieftaincy system: his maternal grandfather was Chief Oderinlo, a Balogun of the Ibadan kingdom.[2] He attended Oduduwa College in Ile-Ife as a young boy, and subsequently passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6).
Chief richard akinjide san
Akinjide travelled to the UK in 1951 for his higher education and was called to the English Bar in 1955. He later returned to Nigeria. He established his practice of Akinjide & Co soon thereafter.
He was the minister of education in the government of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa during the First Republic and the Minister for Justice in the a