First generation legal luminary and Nigeria's second republic Justice Minister - Mr. Kehinde Sofola (SAN) passed away yesterday at age 83; to be buried on March 27, 2007 at Ikenne, Ogun State.
Sofola would be remembered as a man of great principle, courage, and integrity. During the course of his legal career, he was a thorough and tenacious advocate for the Nigerian Bar Association and had a rugged belief in the sustenance and ethic of the legal profession.
Sofola is an alumnus of Kennington College of Law, London and was called to the English Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London on February 9, 1954, enrolled to practice law in Nigeria in 1954, and was confered with the rank of the senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on January 12, 1978.
Sofola noteably chaired the Federal Judicial Service Commission between 1980 to 1983, and was a member of the Arbitration Panel for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
His contributions to the legal profession would stand as a legacy to succeeding generation of lawyers.
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