Nigeria’s former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Bola Ajibola, has died.
He was aged 89.
TheCable quotes a family source as saying the former minister died in the early hours of Sunday.
Mr Bola Ajibola was honoured with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Born March 22, 1934, he was the Attorney General and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994.
He was president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984-85. He was also one of five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, organized through the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
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