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In among the recent coronavirus deaths in India was that of
Soli Sorabjee, who was twice India’s Attorney General. I knew him when he was involved in the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. He participated as counsel in vital constitutional litigation in India over his long career, and held a string of international human rights positions: special rapporteur on human rights in Nigeria, a member of the United Nations Sub Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, which he chaired from 1998 to 2004, and a member of the United Nations Sub Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
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