By Charles Igbo
One of Nigeria’s foremost legal luminaries, Professor Benjamin Nwabueze is dead.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and revered Constitutional lawyer, Nwabueze died of old age related issues on Sunday, October 29, 2023. He was the first academic to be made a SAN in 1978.
Born in Atani, Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State, on December 22, 1932, Nwabueze was an accomplished Administrator, an authority in Law, and a prolific writer and author of many law books.
He was, also, at a point, Nigeria’s Secretary of Education (Minister for Education) under the President Ibrahim Babangida Military Regime.
Nwabueze was also once the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
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