How the former Attorney-General of Nigeria breathed his last at a Lagos hospital + what his eldest son wrote on the topmost Owu Prince
A former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.
Ajibola, who was also a former Attorney-General of Nigeria, died in a Lagos hodpital aged 89.
Ajibola, the founder of Crescent University, Abeokuta, died on Saturday midnight after a long-time illness as a result of old age.
The eldest child of the late jurist, Segun Ajibola, SAN, disclosed this in a statement, on Sunday in Abeokuta.
He wrote, “With very deep heart and gratitude to Almighty Allah.
“Our Dad, Prince Bola Ajibola, departed this world over midnight. May Almighty Allah bless him with Aljanah Firdaus.”
The Owu, Abeokuta Prince and former High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom was 89 years few weeks ago.
Bola” Ajibola, is a Nigerian jurist, he was 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 to 1985. He was also one of five commissioners on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, organized through the Permanent Court of Arbitration
