Moyosore Onigbanjo Explained

Moyosore Onigbanjo
Honorific Suffix:SAN
Office:Attorney General of Lagos State
Governor:Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Term Start:22 August 2019
Predecessor:Mosediq Adeniji Kazeem
Birth Name:Moyosore Jubril Onigbanjo
Birth Date:24 September 1964
Birth Place:Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria
Education:
Occupation:Lawyer

Moyosore Jubril Onigbanjo (born 24 September 1964) is a Nigerian lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He has served as attorney general and commissioner for justice of Lagos State since 2019.[1] [2]

Early life and education

Moyosore Jubril Onigbanjo, was born to a middle-class family on 24 September 1964 in Surulere, Lagos. He attended Sunnyfield Primary school, and later St' Finbarr's College, Yaba, He gained admission and studied law at the University of Ilorin in 1983 but earned his LLB Hons degree in 1988 from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife after the faculty was cancelled at University of Ilorin in 1986 by the National Universities Commission, he then went to Harvard Law School for two Executive Courses on Negotiation and Leadership and thereafter, Difficult Conversation both in 2017.[3] [4]

Career

He was called to bar by the Nigerian Law School in 1989. Onigbanjo was an NYSC corp member when he cut his legal teeth at Akin Delana & Co. in Ibadan, and then became an associate with Professor A.B Kasumu. He was appointed a Notary Public on 31 March 2001 and later appointed Council Member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Section on Business Law (SBL) on 30 March 2011. He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the NBA between 2010 and 2012, in September 2013, Hon. Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar GCON conferred on him with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria. On 22 August 2019, he was sworn in by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the 16th Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Behold new Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice . thenationonlineng . 23 May 2020.
  2. Web site: ONIGBANJO SWORN-IN AS NEW LAGOS STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE . Lagos State Ministry of Justice . 23 May 2020.
  3. Web site: Meet the attorney general . Lagos State Ministry of Justice . 23 May 2020.
  4. Web site: How my Middle-Class family background influenced my Choice of Career - Onigbanjo . TVC News Nigeria . 23 May 2020.
  5. Web site: LIST: Lagos State Commissioners and Special Advisers – 2019 — 2023 . Premium Times NG . 23 May 2020.