Professor ben nwabueze biography of williams
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Tribute to Ben Nwabueze
Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN) was a foremost constitutional lawyer, erudite scholar, author, and legal consultant. He was a former Minister of Education and a great friend to the late Chief F.R.A Williams. Nwabueze, I considered your manner of exit as a kind of protest to be quickly reunited with other departed great legal personalities.
I am sure you decided to embark on this journey of “no return” at this critical moment in our country as a result of the decadence in the judicial system and other segments which you can no longer withstand.
No doubt you shall have a lot of stories (not pleasant ones though) to regale with your professional colleagues and friends like Fidelis Nwadiaolo (SAN), G.O.K Ajayi (SAN), Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), with stories of rot of unimaginable proportion you witnessed in the system before your demise, as opposed to the tradition of excellence, scholarship and erudition which the aforementioned bequeathed to the country once described as “The Giant of Africa.”
Learned Prof, do not forget to inform them that in your lifetime, a judge was slapped and rough-handled by politicians in a state reputed to be a land of honour!
Please, in your sweet reunion, tell them that before your death, our teaching hospitals and the hea
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31st October, 2023
Posted by: Prince Ahmed Hassan (TOHA)
BY: PROF. MIKE OZEKHOME, SAN, CON, OFR, FCIArb, LL.M, Ph.D, LL.D, D.Litt, D.Sc.
The death, on Sunday the 29th day of October, 2023, of Prof. Ben Nwabueze, SAN, brought to an end, arguably, the first generation of Senior Advocates of Nigeria. The first ever set SANs in Nigeria comprised of legal giants, Chief F.R.A. Williams and Dr N.B. Graham-Douglass (both now late),who took the Silk on 4th March, 1975. There was a three year period of interregnum between 1975 and 1st of December, 1978, when this academic and legal Colossus was silked with 12 other legal titans such as Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode, Mr T.A.Bankole-Oki, Mr E.A.Molajo, Mr Kehinde Sofola, Chief Richard Akinjide, Mr G.O.K. Ajayi, Mr Olisa Chukwura, Dr Nwakanma Okoro, Dr Mudiga Odje, Mr P.O. Balonwu and Dr Augustin Nnamani. Nwabueze was certainly the first from the academia, based strictly on his published works. His first love was the classroom and he bestrode it like the Colossus he was. He was thus justifiably called “the Professor of Professors”. He remained a teacher and mentor of many generations of legal academics both in Nigeria and beyond till his last breath. I am one of his benefic
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Benjamin Obi Nwabueze (1931-2023)
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