Lateef adegbite biography of williams
Lateef Adegbite (20 March – 28 September ) was a lawyer who became Attorney General of the Western Region of Nigeria, and who later became.!
He was born on March 20, into a Muslim family in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
It is seven years today since the demise of the immediate past Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Dr. Lateef Oladimeji Adegbite who excelled in all his areas of interest far beyond the shores of Islamic leadership for which he was widely known.
One of the multiplicities of foci covered by Adegbite’s professional tentacles is the legal profession which he bestrode, for almost five decades, like a colossus.
For instance, sequel to his law lectureship at the University of Lagos, he rose to become Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice as well as a member of both the Academic Council and Executive Committee of the Institute of International Business Law and Practice, which was an organ of the International Chamber of Commerce based in Paris.
He was also Nigeria’s Alternate Representative at the International Court of Arbitration also based at the ICC headquarters in Paris.
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