By Olarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) We received the news of the transmutation of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, from his finitely temporal existence to immortality with a mixed feeling. The sense of loss is profoundly devastating. The mere thought that our adorable Gani will be referred to in past tense is difficult to bear. More unsettling is […]

By Ogbeni Banjo Death will never cease to inflict its pains, pangs and anguish in our hearts. In my leader’s case, it forewarned us in the most disappointed way. When it eventually comes, it strikes with a painful scourge, leaving on its trail feelings of nostalgia, sorrow, inertia and forlorn hope, especially for a man […]

By Onyema Omenuwa When Chief FRA Williams, SAN, passed on some three years ago, Nigeria’s legal community lamented the closure of a definitive chapter of the country’s legal history. Significantly, such feeling of momentous loss is, unarguably, the highest tribute that could be paid to a lawyer in this part of the world, and it […]

The greatest humiliation I had as a junior lawyer was when one client asked my boss to please personally handle his matter… “why?” asked my boss.

A quintessentially brilliant, modest, committed, dedicated, enterprising and accomplished legal practitioner, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) who died last Saturday after a grim battle with lung cancer, meant different things to different people.