In this article we shall be discussing the followings. These are:
Who is attorney general?
What is the difference between Attorney
General and Minister of Justice?
Who was the first attorney general of Nigeria?
Who is the current attorney general of Nigeria?
List of Nigeria Attorney General from 1960 till date.
Brief History of Nigeria attorney generals.
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Who is attorney general?
Attorney General is the head of the state Department of Justice, the chief lawyer of the federal government of the Nigeria, and a member of the Cabinet of the Nigeria.
Office address of the attorney-general of the federation nigeria
Address: Federal Ministry of
Justice HQ
Plot 71B Shehu Shagari Way,
Maitama Abuja,
Email: info@justice.gov.ng
Phone: 08050888806
list of chief Justice of Nigeria
functions of the attorney general in nigeria.
The Attorney General shall be the Head Ministry of Justice, charged with the responsibility to provide a legal services and support for local law enforcement in the state and acts as the chief counsel in state litigation. In addition, the Attorney General Oversees law enforcement agencies.
What is the difference between Attorney
General and Minister of Justice?
According to wikipidia the Minister of Justice is concerned with questions of policy and their relationship to the justice system. In their role as attorney general, they are the chief law officer of the Crown.
Who was the first Nigeria attorney general of federation?
Taslim Olawale Elias (11 November 1914 – 14 August 1991) was the first Attorney-General of Nigeria and a judge and President of the International Court of Justice.
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Who is the current attorney general of federation in Nigeria?
Abubakar Malami is the current minister of Justice was born on 17 April 1967 in Birnin Kebbi, the capital of Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria.
h2>List of past ministers of Justice in Nigeria from 1960 till date The followings are the list of Nigeria attorney general of federation. These are:
1. HON.
JUSTICE
TASLIM
ELIAS , CFR,
GCON (1960–1966)
2. CHIEF G.I.M
ONYIUKE,
SAN (1 March 1966 – 29 July
1966)
3. DR. NABO
GRAHAM
DOUGLAS (1966–1972)
4. HON.
JUSTICE DAN
IBEKWE (1972–1975)
Augustine Nnamani, CON (1975-1979)
5
HON.
JUSTICE
AUGUSTINE
NNAMANI,
CON
1975 -1979.
6. CHIEF
RICHARD O.A
AKINJIDE,
SAN (1979-1983)
7
MR KEHINDE
SOFOLA, SAN
Oct 1983 –
Dec. 1983
8
MR. CHIKE
OFODILE,
SAN
1984 –
Aug. 1985
9
PRINCE BOLA
AJIBOLA,
SAN
12 Sept.
1985 – 4
Dec. 1991
10
CHIEF
CLEMENT
AKPAMGBO,
SAN
1991 –
1993
11
DR. OLU
ONAGORUWA
1993 –
1994
12
CHIEF.
MICHAEL A.
AGBAMUCHE,
SAN
1994 –
1997
13
MR. ACHIJI
ABDULLAHI
IBRAHIM,
OFR, SAN
1997 –
May 1999
14
HON. KANU
GODWIN
AGABI, SAN
June 1999
– Jan.
2000
15
CHIEF BOLA
IGE, SAN
3 Jan.
200 – 23
Dec. 2001
16
HON. KANU
GODWIN
AGABI, SAN
2002 -2003
17
CHIEF AKIN
OLUJIMI, SAN
July 2003
– July
2005
18
CHIEF BAYO
OJO, SAN,
FCI ARB, (UK)
July 2005
–July 2007
19
CHIEF
MICHAEL A.
AONDOAKAA,
SAN
26 July
2007 –
10 Feb.
2010
20
PRINCE
ADETOKUNBO
KAYODE, SAN
10
Feb.2010 –
17 March
2010
21
MR.
MOHAMMED
BELLO
ADOKE, SAN,
CFR
6 April
2010 –
29 May
2011
22
MR.
MOHAMMED
BELLO
ADOKE, SAN,
CFR
2 July
2011 –
May 2015
23
MR.
ABUBAKAR
MALAMI, SAN
1. 11
Nov.
2015
Till
Date
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Brief History of passed Nigeria attorney generals.
The following are the brief history of passed Nigeria attorney generals.
Taslim Olawale Elias
(11 November 1914 – 14
August 1991) was a Nigerian jurist. He was
Attorney-General and Chief Justice of Nigeria and
a judge and President of the International Court
of Justice. He was a scholar who modernised
and extensively revised the laws of Nigeria.
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Augustine Nnamani
was a former justice of the
Supreme Court of Nigeria, he was appointed on
August 15, 1979 and was on the court for 11
years. Prior to the appointment, he was Attorney
General of the Nigerian Minister of Justice.
Chief Osuolale Abimbola Richard Akinjide, SAN
(4 November 1930 – 21 April 2020) was a
Yoruba Nigerian lawyer and politician. He
served as the minister of education in the First
Republic and the minister of justice in the
Second Republic.
Chief Sofola
was born on March 10, 1924 in
Ogun State southwestern Nigeria. He was Call to
the bar on September 11, 1954.
He was the founder of Kehinde Sofola's Chamber a law firm in Lagos State where Ayotunde Phillips, the Chief Judge of Lagos State began her career on September 1976.
Bolasodun Adesumbo "Bola" Ajibola, KBE
(born
March 22, 1934) was an Attorney General and
the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to
1991 and a Judge of the International Court of
Justice from 1991 to 1994. He was president
of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984–85.
He was also one of five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, organized through the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Michael Agbamuche
was born on August 16,
1920 in Akwukwu-Igbo where he attended St
John's Anglican primary school. He worked as a
clerical officer at the then government secretariat
Kaduna until he passed his Senior Cambridge
exams and proceeded to london for further
studies. He enrolled in a one-year introduction
course at the Battersea Polytechnic Institute now
the University of Surrey from 1950-1951
[failed verification] before proceeding to King's
College London where he obtained a degree in
Law. He was called to the English bar Middle
Temple in 1957. He returned to Nigeria and
enrolled as a barrister and solicitor with the
Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1958.
Ibrahim
was called to the English Bar in 1963,
and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1964. He
served as Legal Adviser and Senior State
Counsel in the defunct Northern Region of
Nigeria. He entered private practice in 1973 as
Managing Partner of Abdullahi Ibrahim and
company. Ibrahim was Legal Adviser and later
Chairman of New Nigeria Development Company
Limited, (NNDC). In 1982 he was admitted to
the Inner Bar as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
He was Chairman of the Body of Benchers until 2001. He is a Notary Public, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague and Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee.
Ibrahim held cabinet positions as Federal Minister of Education, Science and Technology. He was Minister for Transport and Aviation (1984–1985) in the cabinet of General Muhammadu Buhari.
He was Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of Nigeria (1997 – May 1999) in the cabinet of General Abdulsalami Abubakar. He is a Commissioner of the International - National Boundary Commission, and was a member of the Nigerian team that negotiated the Maritime Boundary Treaty between Nigeria and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and the Unitization Agreement of the Zafiro/Ekanga Oil Fields. He was the agent and later co-agent in the dispute between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon at the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
Kanu
was appointed a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria on 15 September 1997. In the April
1999 elections, Kanu ran for governor of Cross
River State, but was defeated by Donald Duke.
He was said to be a candidate for the same position in the 2003 elections.
Ojo
hails from Ife-Ijumu , Kogi State, in central
Nigeria. He had his primary school education in
Maiduguri and Kaduna and his post-primary
education at Zaria in Kaduna State.
He worked briefly as a civil servant in Ilorin, Kwara State, before he proceeded to the University of Lagos (in Lagos) where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Law in June 1977. He is married to Hon. Justice Folashade Bayo-Ojo, and they have two children, Babatomiwa and Olubusola. He has two brothers, Daniel Oluwasegun Ojo and Victor Olanrewaju Ojo.
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Michael Kaase Aondoakaa
was born in Benue on
12 June 1962. He schooled at Mount Saint
Gabriel's Secondary school Makurdi and Upon
graduation was admitted into the Faculty of Law,
University of Maiduguri where he obtained his
LL.B Certificate. He became a senior partner of a
law firm for 18 years. While helping two of his
friends, Ogiri Ajene, former deputy governor of
Benue State and Professor Daniel Saror to secure
nomination for ministerial appointment, he was
invited to meet President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,
and during the interview was offered the post of
Attorney General until February 10, 2010 when he
was removed in controversial circumstances by
the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan.
Adetokunbo Kayode
is a Nigerian corporate
lawyer, tax expert and international arbitrator.
He attended CMS Grammar School, in Lagos . It is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria . He studied law at the University of Lagos , Nigeria Law School, Lagos, Strategic Leadership at the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Strategy and Public Communications at the World Bank/ Annenberg Program of the University of Southern California, as well as Strategic Negotiations training at Harvard University.
Adoke
was born on 1 September 1963 in Kogi
State. He gained a degree in law from Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria in 1985, and was called to
the Nigerian Bar in October 1986.
He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Tax Law from Robert Kennedy University in Zurich, Switzerland and a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from Keble College, Oxford.
He held positions with the Kwara State Schools' Management Board, Kano State Ministry of Justice and private law firms before establishing his own practice. He was a member of the Board of Peugeot Automobile from 2006 to 2008 and Chairman of the Board Audit Committee of Unity Bank. He has acted as an arbitrator in England and Nigeria, handling commercial disputes involving Shell Ultra Deep and the Federal Government of Nigeria, Global Steel Holdings and the Bureau of Public Enterprises Investment, and AES Nigeria Barge and Lagos State Government.
His appointment as Minister of Justice and Attorney General on 6 April 2010 was seen as an attempt by Jonathan to introduce a fresh approach in pushing through electoral reforms.
His tenure as Attorney General ended on 29 May 2015.
Abubakar Malami
was born on 17 April 1967 in
Birnin Kebbi, the capital of Kebbi State, Northern
Nigeria. His early formal education began at
Nassarawa Primary School, Birnin Kebbi before
he completed his secondary school education at
College of Arts and Arabic Studies.
In 1991, Malami graduated from Usmanu Danfodiyo University where he studied Law and was called to the bar in 1992.
Abubakar is an alumnus of the University of Maiduguri where he obtained his master's degree in Public Administration in 1994.
Reference:
https://www.justice.gov.ng/index.php/the-ministry/history/past-attorney-generals-of-the-federation
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