Former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and ex-Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola is dead.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prince Ajibola, who is a former Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Hague, Netherlands, died in the early hours of Sunday at the age of 89.
It was gathered that Ajibola, who was the founder of Crescent University, Abeokuta, died after a protracted illness as a result of old age.
The eldest child of the late jurist, Segun Ajibola, SAN, disclosed this in a statement, on Sunday via Facebook.
He wrote, “With very deep heart and gratitude to Almighty Allah. Our Dad, Prince Bola Ajibola, departed this world over midnight. May Almighty Allah bless him with Aljanah Firdaus.”
TNG reports Ajibola was a Judge of the International Court of Justice between 1991 and 1994. He was Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991.
A Prince from Owu, he was born on 22 March 1934, and was president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) from 1984 to 1985.
Ajibola obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B) at the Holborn College of Law, University of London between 1959 and 1962 and was called to the English Bar at the Lincoln’s Inn in 1962.
He returned to Nigeria to practise Law, specialising in Commercial Law and International Arbitration.
The Owu Prince was chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State government to probe the 2008 Jos riots.
He established an Islamic and co-educational institution, Crescent University, in Nigeria in 2005, and he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN).
He was the High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2002.