Ademola adekogbe biography of mahatma gandhi

Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 to 1972

OmobaSirAdetokunbo Adegboyega AdemolaGCONKBE PCSAN (1 February 1906 – 29 January 1993) was a Nigerian jurist who was the Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 to 1972.

He was appointed as Chief Justice on 1 April 1958, succeeding Sir Stafford Foster-Sutton, who was retiring. Ademola was a son of Oba Sir Ladapo Ademola II, the Alake of the Egba clan of Nigeria. He was the first chancellor of the University of Benin.^[1]

Early life and education

Adetokunbo was born on 1 February 1906, into royalty as the son of Prince Ladapo and Princess Tejumade Ademola.

His father was a regent of the Egba United Government in Lagos who later became Ademola II, the Alake of Egbaland, Abeokuta, a historic walled city of the Egbas in south-western Nigeria.^[2] His mother was a senior sister to Sir Adeyemo Alakija.

At the age of four, he lived briefly with his maternal grandfather, Pa Alakija, in Abeokuta, and a y