Ibadan
AKINJIDE
Richard
LL.B,
- Married
Has seven children
called to the Bar, Inner Temple, London, 1956; Clerk, Cooperative Department, Ibadan and Benin 1952; engaged in private legal practice, 1956; elected member of Parliament, Ibadan South-East Constituency, 1959-66; appointed Federal Minister of Education, 1965-66; President, Nigerian Bar Association, 1970-73; member, Editorial Board, Nigerian, Monthly Law Reports; in political detention, 1962; member, Nigerian Delegation to the United Nations, 1960;member,Nigerian Delegation to All African Peoples Conferences, Accra, 1958; member. Governing Council, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1975-76; Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, University ofJos, 1976; appointed Minister of Justice, 1979-83; Federal Government’s Chief Strategist on Bakassi, since 1994; Senior Advocate of Nigeria, 1978;
member, defunct National Party of Nigeria, 1978-83; National Legal Adviser and Governorship Candidate, Oyo State, 1979; member and presidential aspirant People’s Democratic Party;
golf, farming;
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