Akinjide, former AGF dies at 88

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Former Attorney General of the Federation under president Shehu Shagari, Chief Richard Akinjide, has died.

Akinjide, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), died in Oyo state in the early hours of Tuesday after battling an unknown illness. He was 88-years-old.

The late Akinjide was a minister of education under the Tafawa Balewa administration in the first republic, he later became justice minister in the administration of Shehu Shagari.

Akinjide attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife in Osun state. He went for further studies in the UK and he was called to the English bar in 1955 and later called to the Nigerian bar.

He was a member of a sub-committee of the constitutional drafting committee of 1975. Akinjide joined the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1978.