Former Attorney-General of the federation and minister of justice, Chief Osuolale Richard Akinjide is dead.
The 88-year-old former AGF died in his home in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The late AGF was Born in Ibadan, in the early 1930s into an influential family of warriors.
the former Ibadan high chief attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife from where he passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6).
He was a Minister of Education in the first republic when Alhaji Tafawa Balewa was the nation’s Prime Minister.
Chief Richard was also a Minister for Justice in the second republic, during the government of President Shehu Shagari.