The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, will on September 18 confer the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria on 30 lawyers.
A statement by the Director of Press and Information, Supreme Court, Dr Festus Akande, on Tuesday, said the conferment of the SAN on the lawyers was part of the events lined up to mark the commencement of 2017/2018 legal year.
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee had on July 6 announced Lagos lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, among the 30 successful candidates to be awarded the prestigious rank.
Twenty-nine others, including the Alliance for Democracy’s candidate in the last governorship election in Ondo State and a former National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olusola Oke, were among the successful candidates.
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