Justice Chukwudifu Oputa is dead

Mr. Oputa died on Sunday after a protracted illness at the age of 96.

A former Supreme Court Justice, Chukwudifu Oputa, is dead. Mr. Oputa died on Sunday after a protracted illness at the age of 96.
His maverick son, Charles Oputa, popularly called Charley Boy, confirmed the death of the jurist.

Mr. Oputa was born in Oguta, Imo State.
He attended primary school in Oguta before moving to Kings College and later, Yaba College of Technology, all in Lagos.

He also attended Achimota College, Ghana, the London University and Gray’s Inn, London.

Mr. Oputa was called to bar in 1953 but later set up private practice in Port Harcourt in 1954.

He was appointed a judge in 1966 and was promoted Justice of the Supreme Court in 1984, where he served until retirement in 1989.

He chaired the Human Rights Violation Investigations Commission which came to be known as the “Oputa Panel,” during the Olusegun Obasanjo regime.

Ex-Lagos governor, Michael. Otedola, is dead

News of Otedola’s death filtered in on Monday morning.

He is the father of controversial billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola.

A former Governor of Lagos State, Sir Michael Otedola, is dead.

News of Otedola’s death filtered in on Monday morning.

He is the father of controversial billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola.

Sir Otedola was the governor of Lagos State between 1992 and 1993 during the truncated transition programme of former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

He was elected on the platform of the National Republican Convention.

He emerged governor against the ‎run of thoughts after a crisis engulfed the then Social Democratic Party in Lagos State over the choice of gubernatorial candidate.
Otedola was born on July 26, ‎1926.

He studied journalism at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
He graduated in 1958.
He was a teacher before picking up appointment as a Reporter with the St. Pancras Chronicle.
He later became a Sub-Editor at The Guardian and The Times of England.
In 1959 when he returned to Nigeria, ‎Otedola became the Information Officer of the Western Nigeria Government.
He also worked with the Nigeria Television Authority and Mobil Oil Group of Companies.