Category: Law – Constitutional
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Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata; Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission INEC chair who organized elections in 1999 which ushered in Nigeria’s democracy after 15 years of military rule. Akpata was a retired justice of the Supreme Court working as private consultant on arbitration matters when he was appointed by General Abdulsalami Abubakar to head the newly formed…
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Alexander Sapara Williams was the 19th Century lawyer, who when called to bar at the Inner Temple in 1879 became Nigeria’s first to qualify as an advocate. His clamour for press freedom, and opposition of the Seditious Offences Ordinances of 1909 which fortified Colonial authority against dissidence provided the background upon which Herbert Macaulay and…