Chief Richard Akinjide SAN, a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minster of Justice, under the Alhaji Shehu Shagari Presidency, is dead.
He passed away in the early hours of Tuesday.
Details were still sketchy as at Press time.
Akinjide, 84 years, had been receiving treatment at a private suite, at the University Teaching Hospital, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
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