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Published 12 March 2021
The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has mourned the first emeritus professor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor David Ijalaye.
The Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof Eyitope Ogunbodede, described Ijalaye’s death as “monumental”.
A release by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, quoted the Vice-Chancellor as saying Ijalaye would be missed not only to his immediate constituencies of academia and legal profession but to the entire country.
He lamented that “a library of encyclopedia of law and knowledge has gone”.
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He also lauded the departed legal icon for his immeasurable sacrifice to the University, describing him as a “rock of Gibraltar” upon which the University’s Faculty of Law stands immovably.
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