Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, Dies Aged 91 Years

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.