Bola Ajibola

Prince
Bola Ajibola
KBE
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria
In office
13 September 1985 – 4 December 1991
PresidentIbrahim Babangida
Preceded byChike Ofodile
Succeeded byClement Akpamgbo
Judge of the International Court of Justice
In office
1991–1994
Preceded byTaslim Elias
Succeeded byAbdul Koroma
President of the Nigerian Bar Association
In office
1984–1985
Preceded byA.N. Anyamene
Succeeded byEbele Nwokoye
High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom
In office
1999–2002
PresidentOlusegun Obasanjo
Personal details
Born
Bolasodun Adesumbo Ajibola

(1934-03-22)22 March 1934
Lagos Island, Lagos Colony, Southern Region, British Nigeria (now in Ogun State, Nigeria)
Died8 April 2023(2023-04-08) (aged 89)
Lagos State, Nigeria
SpousesOlufunmilayo Janet Abeni Ajibola and Amatullah Olaitan Ajibola.
Parent
  • Oba Abdulsalam Ajibola Gbadela II (father)
Alma materUniversity of London
OccupationJurist
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Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo "Bola" Ajibola, SAN, KBE, CFR (22 March 1934 – 8 April 2023) was a Nigerian jurist, who was the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 and a judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994.[1] He was president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985. He was also one of five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, organized through the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 1979, he founded The Nigeria Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (NICArb) as the premier arbitration institute in Nigeria and it was duly incorporated in 1988 under the Companies Act as a legal entity Limited by Guarantee.

A prince from Owu, he was born on 22 March 1934,[2] in Lagos Island,[Lagos Colony], Colonial Nigeria, to the Owu royal family of Oba Abdul-Salam Ajibola Gbadela II,[3] who was the traditional ruler of Owu between 1949 and 1972. Ajibola attended both Owu Baptist Day School and Baptist Boys' High School in Abeokuta between 1942 and 1955. He 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 Lincoln's Inn in 1962.[4] He returned to Nigeria to practise law, specialising in commercial law and international arbitration.

Prince Bola Ajibola was chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State government to probe the 2008 Jos riots.[5][6] He established an Islamic and co-educational institution, Crescent University, in Nigeria in 2005, and he served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN).

Ajibola was the high commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2002.

  1. ^ "Election of a Member of the International Court of Justice" (PDF). ICJ. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  2. ^ Mielle K. Bulterman, Martin Kuijer Compliance with judgments of international courts
  3. ^ Miroslav Volf; Ghazi bin Muhammad (Prince of Jordan.); Mellisa Yarrington (2010). Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 238. ISBN 9780802863805.
  4. ^ "Prince Bola Ajibola: Eminent jurist and educationist". Vanguard News. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ^ Jos Riots - Politricking With Fire
  6. ^ Plateau Gov Inaugurates Panel To Investigate Jos Riots