By Chinyere Aruogu
Nigeria’s former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Dr. Olu Onagoruwa SAN, is dead.
Onagoruwa, a Prince from Odogbolu in Ogun State and Principal Partner of Dr. Olu Onagoruwa Chambers, died earlier morning Friday, July 21, months after he was 80 years.
Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1971, he graduated from University College London in 1964, obtained his LLM and completed his Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the same University in 1968.
He became a member of the Inner Temple of the English bar, and was also a member of both the Nigerian and International Bar Associations.
He had an inexhaustible zest for writing and published over 250 articles on Law and Contemporary issues.
Some of his classical works include the Nigerian Civil War; Fundamental Human Rights and International Law 1969, The Amakiri Case; Press Freedom in Crisis 1978 and Law and Contemporary Nigeria Reflections 2004, among others.
Onagoruwa, who attended the Academy of American and International Law Center USA on a Fulbright and Hays scholarship, has served as a law lecturer in various Nigerian Institutions.
He was appointed the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1993 and was further appointed as the African representative to the body that drafted Ethiopia’s Constitution in that same year. He was also the Group Legal Adviser/Company Secretary of Daily Times Nigeria for several years.
He was involved in General Practice of Law with core practice areas including: Constitutional Law, Legislative Matters, Banking and Insolvency, Oil and Gas, Telecommunication Law and Litigation.
Tributes are already pouring in from public and private individuals from his state in Ogun and other parts of the country.
Nigeria’s Former Attorney General/Justice Minister, Olu Onagoruwa, Passes On At 80
