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          Reverend Richard is a minister of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

          Akinjide passed on at the age of 89 years, accomplished as a politician, at the twilight of the country's pre-colonial days, the First Republic ()..

          Richard Akinjide

          Nigerian lawyer and politician (1930-2020)

          ChiefOsuolale Abimbola Richard Akinjide, SAN (4 November 1930 – 21 April 2020) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician.[1] He served as the minister of education in the First Republic and the minister of justice in the Second Republic.

          Biography

          Born in Ibadan in 1930, Chief Akinjide belonged to a family with links to the Nigerian chieftaincy system: his maternal grandfather was Chief Oderinlo, a Balogun of the Ibadan kingdom.[2] He attended Oduduwa College in Ile-Ife as a young boy, and subsequently passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6).

          Akinjide travelled to the UK in 1951 for his higher education and was called to the English Bar in 1955.

          Akinjide won a seat and represented Ibadan in the Parliamentary System of Government headed by Sir Tafawa Balewa as the Prime Minister.

        1. Akinjide won a seat and represented Ibadan in the Parliamentary System of Government headed by Sir Tafawa Balewa as the Prime Minister.
        2. Richard Akinjide stood before a panel of seven supreme court justices and convinced them that two-thirds of 19 states was ”12 two-thirds”, and not
        3. Akinjide passed on at the age of 89 years, accomplished as a politician, at the twilight of the country's pre-colonial days, the First Republic ().
        4. Akinjide, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) was born in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State, in Engineering at the University of Lagos.
        5. The year-old legal icon died in his Ibadan home today April 21, at about 1am after a long battle with an undisclosed ailment.

          6. He later returned to Nigeria. He established his practice of Akinjide & Co soon thereafter.

          He was the minister of education in the government of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa during the First Republic and the Minister for Justice in the a