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Chief Olufolake Solanke, SAN: First Female Senior Advocate of Nigeria
A Teacher and a Lawyer, Chief Folake Solanke OON, CON, SAN was born on March 29th, 1932 in Abeokuta. She attended Ago Oko Primary School, Abeokuta from 1937-1939, Emo Girls School, Abeokuta from 1940-1944 and Methodist Girls High School, Yaba Lagos, from 1945-1949, where she consistently took the first prize in English and Mathematics.
With a privileged background, born to the prominent J.S. Odulate (founder of Alabukun Medicine), she travelled to England.
In 1951, she entered the King’s College in the University of Durham, now the University of Newscastle in England where she obtained her BA (2nd Division) in Latin and Mathematics in 1954. In 1955, she received a Diploma Certificate in Education. She taught Latin and Mathematics at Pipers Corner School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire between 1957 and 1958, and in 1960, Chief Solanke gained admission into Gray’s Inn, London to read for a degree in law. She wa
BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Bridge Street was getting a facelift in 1966 When 20-year-old Gloria Latter married at Reading Register Office in 1966, she immediately became “mother” to 10 children, six older than herself. Her bridegroom was 53-year-old lorry driver Wilfred Wade, from Mortimer, who had six children by a previous marriage and, if that wasn’t enough, Gloria was looking after her four brothers and sisters. The couple met three years previously, when Wilfred ran a café in the village, but had to wait until Gloria’s parents gave their consent. For her wedding the bride wore a full-length gown of white lace and carried a bouquet of freesias and carnations, they would be living in Mr. Wade’s caravan in Burghfield, until they could get a house.