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| Pst. Osinbajo |
The man, Yemi Osinbajo, 55, is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria
and Senior Partner in the Law firm of Simmons Cooper Partners, a law firm,
where he earns his living.
He is married to the house of Obafemi Awolowo, arguably the
greatest Yoruba politician ever and a distinguished public administrator
described by the late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu as “the best president Nigeria never
had”.
Oludolapo, his wife
and mother of his three children, is a granddaughter of the late sage.
Yemi is from Ogun state originally, but he
served Lagos as commissioner and is therefore also from Lagos.
His brother, Akin, was the attorney-general of Ogun state
from 2003-2007, the first and only time two blood brothers known to have held
commissionerships in different states at the same time.
He attended Igbobi College in Lagos and was a classmate of
Dele Alake, former commissioner for information and strategy in Lagos.
Osinbajo
studied law at the University of Lagos (1978) and got a master’s from the
London School of Economics and Political Science (1980).
He was admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1979. The professor of law was
the head of department of public law at the University of Lagos (1997-1999).
He
is a member of the International Bar Association and the British Institute of
International and Comparative Law and has served in the Nigerian Body of
Benchers and the Council for Legal Education of Nigeria.
His tertiary education was at the University of Lagos and
the London School of Economics where he obtained the LLB and LLM degrees
respectively.
He was appointed the Lagos State Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice in 1999 and reappointed for a second term in 2003.
During the period of his public service, he commenced the Lagos State justice
reform project.
A prominent feature of that project was the establishment of
the Directorate for Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free legal services
and legal representation to indigent citizens of the state.
This initiative
gave a voice to many who would otherwise not have a way to access their rights.
Prior to that appointment, Osinbajo, a Professor of Law, was
the Head of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos.
Between 1988 and 1992, he was the Special Adviser to the
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He
also served as a staff member of the United Nations and Member of the United
Nation’s Secretary General’s Committee of Experts on Conduct and Discipline of
UN Peacekeeping personnel around the globe.
He is currently an Ethics Advisor to the Ethics Committee of
the African Development Bank and is a non-executive Director of Citibank.
Prof. Osinbajo is Co-founder & Board Member Convention
on Business Integrity and the Justice Research Institute Ltd. He has also
authored several law books.
In 2007, Prof. and his wife Oludolapo founded “The Orderly
Society Trust”, a non- governmental organization that is dedicated to the
promotion of Christian ethics and orderliness.
He is a resident pastor at the Olive Tree House of Prayer
for All Nations, Banana Island, a parish of the RCCG.
He lives in Lagos with his wife, Dolapo Osinbajo, with three
children.
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