Category: Law – General
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Wale Babalakin is the entrepreneur son of a former Supreme Court Judge form Gbongan in Osun State, Bolarinwa Babalakin. Although Wale Babalakin studied law like his father, even acquiring the highest qualification attainable, he delved into property development, and is now the owner of Nigeria’s biggest construction firm, the Bi-Courtney. Childhood Wale’s mother, Ramotu…
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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…