The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, former Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Ikeazor Akaraiwe as well as former NBA Secretary General, Emeka Obegolu on Thursday joined 69 other candidates who emerged successful at the 2021 award of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
Ojukwu, who was shortlisted last year but did not make the list, was however successful this year.
The 72 candidates emerged successful from a total of 130 shortlisted for the award last month by the Legal Practitioners’Privileges Committee ( LPPC).
The committee had shortlisted 95 candidates from the category of Advocates and 35 from the academics.
However, after the screening and interview only 62 emerged successful from Advocates category and 10 from the academics.
The successful candidates would however be conferred with the rank on December 8, at the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad.
The list of the successful candidates which was signed by the Acting Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court/ Secretary of the LPPC, Mrs Hajo Bello, noted that the decision to elevate the 72 candidates to the prestigious rank of SAN was taking at the LPPC’s 149 Plenary Session held on October 21, 2021.
She said that the rank of SAN is being “awarded as a mark of excellence to members of the legal profession who have distinguished themselves as advocates and academics.”
It will be recalled that the LPPC had set up a sub-commitee to review the 2018 guidelines for the award of the rank Effective from the 2023 application year.
Others that made the list from the academics included; Prof Bankole Sodipo, Prof Christian Wigwe, Prof Ajagbe Oyewo, and Dr Josephine Agbonika.
Those in the Advocates category are George Anuga, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Simon Lough, Ayo Olorunfemi, Ehigie West-Idahosa and Reuben Atabo, among others.
Below is a full list of those to be conferred with the honour:
ACADEMICS
Prof Bankole Akintoye Sodipo
Prof Christian Chizundu Wigwe
Prof Ajagbe Toriola Oyewo
Prof Rasheed Jimoh Ijaodola
Prof Oluyinka Osayame Omorogbe
Dr Josephine Aladi Achor Agbonika
Dr Ibrahim Abdullahi
Prof Edoba Bright Omoregie
Prof Abiola Olaitan Sanni
Dr Anthony Ojukwu Okechukwu
ADVOCATES
George Audu Anuga
Simon Asember Lough
Eko Ejembi Eko
Ayo Abraham Olorunfemi
Reuben Okpanachi Atabo
John Ogwu Adele
Shaibu Enejoh Aruwa
Eyitayo Ayokunle Fatogun
Jacob Johnson Usman
Tajudeen Olaseni Oladoja
Salman Jawando Ayinla
Adeola Rasaq Omotunde
Mathew Gwar Bukka
Mohammed Ndayako
Hassan Usman El-Yakub
Ishaq Magaji Hussaini
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