Erudite Scholar, Pastor, Motivational Speaker, Lawyer and Vice-president, Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Prof. Osinbajo\u2019s early years in primary school were spent at Corona School Lagos. Between 1969- 1975, he attended Igbobi College, Yaba. He studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Lagos between 1975-1978 and in 1979, he completed the mandatory one-year professional training at the Nigerian Law School. Consequently, he was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of Nigeria’s Supreme Court.\u00a0\u00a0From 1979 \u20131980, Osinbajo participated in the one-year youth service programme as a Legal Officer with Bendel Development and Planning Authority (BDPA), in the now defunct Bendel State, Nigeria. In the same 1980, he attended the London School of Economics & Political Science. In 1981, the University of Lagos, Nigeria, engaged Osinbajo as a Lecturer.<\/p>\n
From 1988\u20131992, he was appointed as an Adviser (Legal Advice and Litigation), to the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, KBE. In 1994, he became a Professor of Law following which he was appointed Head of Department of Public Law, University of Lagos.<\/p>\n
Between 1999 and 2007, Osinbajo was Member of Cabinet of the Lagos State Government where he served as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice. He also became Senior Partner at Simmons Cooper Partners, Nigeria ( a commercial law practice), Staff Member, United Nations Operations in Somalia, Justice Division, UNOSOM II. Member, United Nations Secretary General\u2019s Committee of Experts on Conduct and Discipline of UN, Member, Peacekeeping Personnel around the globe.\u00a0From 2007 \u2013 2013, Osinbajo was once again employed as a Professor of Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos.<\/p>\n
Prof. Osinbajo is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, International Bar Association and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a Partner in Law Firm of Osinbajo, Kukoyi & Adokpaye. He has also served on the Nigerian Body of Benchers and the Council for Legal Education of Nigeria. He was an independent director of CitiBank Nigeria and an ethics adviser to the board of the Africa Development Bank (ADB).<\/p>\n
A few awards received by Prof. Osinbajo include: Winner of the State Merit Award (1971); the School Prize for English Oratory (1972); Adeoba Prize for English Oratory (1972-1975); Elias Prize for Best Performance in History (WASC, 1973); School Prize for Literature (HSC, 1975); and African Statesman Intercollegiate Best Speaker\u2019s Prize (1974). , He also won the Graham-Douglas Prize for Commercial Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25345,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,165,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-23371","literary-biography","type-literary-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-legal","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary-biography\/23371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary-biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/literary-biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary-biography\/23371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24436,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary-biography\/23371\/revisions\/24436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23371"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=23371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}