A former Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, a lawyer, researcher and administrator, died at age 67.
Prof. Jadesola Akande was born in Ibadan on November 15, 1940. She attended Ibadan People’s girls School from 1945-1952 and St. Annes School from 1953-1957 from where she obtained her West African School Certificate. She soon attended the Barnstable Girls Grammar School, Devon, England where she sat for her G.C.E. ‘A’ Levels and from where she gained admission to the University College, Gower Street London to study Law, graduating with a Second Class Upper Division in 1963. Prof Akande was subsequently called to the Bar at Inner Temple, London in July 1964 and subsequently the Nigerian Bar in 1965.
Professor Jadesola Akande is a distinguished jurist, a widely proclaimed Academician and a renowned contributor to women development - one of the few female academic pillars in Nigeria. She returned to Nigeria
in 1965 and worked in the West Regional Civil Service as an Administrative Officer/State Council for one year before proceeding to do the then Statutory three months course at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
For fourteen years thereafter, she taught law at the university of Lagos Law School during which she also worked as a staff candidate for both her Masters Degree (LLM), 1968 and Ph.D., London, 1971 .She currently runs the Family Laws Center, a part of Ford Foundation funded free Legal Aid Center for poor people which she initiated in 1984.
She died on April 29,2008
Prof. Jadesola Akande was born in Ibadan on November 15, 1940. She attended Ibadan People’s girls School from 1945-1952 and St. Annes School from 1953-1957 from where she obtained her West African School Certificate. She soon attended the Barnstable Girls Grammar School, Devon, England where she sat for her G.C.E. ‘A’ Levels and from where she gained admission to the University College, Gower Street London to study Law, graduating with a Second Class Upper Division in 1963. Prof Akande was subsequently called to the Bar at Inner Temple, London in July 1964 and subsequently the Nigerian Bar in 1965.
Professor Jadesola Akande is a distinguished jurist, a widely proclaimed Academician and a renowned contributor to women development - one of the few female academic pillars in Nigeria. She returned to Nigeria
in 1965 and worked in the West Regional Civil Service as an Administrative Officer/State Council for one year before proceeding to do the then Statutory three months course at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
For fourteen years thereafter, she taught law at the university of Lagos Law School during which she also worked as a staff candidate for both her Masters Degree (LLM), 1968 and Ph.D., London, 1971 .She currently runs the Family Laws Center, a part of Ford Foundation funded free Legal Aid Center for poor people which she initiated in 1984.
She died on April 29,2008
