OBITUARY: Bola Ajibola: Nigerian icon of jurisprudence, public service goes home at 89

A former judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Bola Ajibola, is dead.

Mr Ajibola, the founder of Crescent University, Abeokuta, died on Saturday midnight after a long illness associated with old age, his family said. But before his death, he had written his name in gold on the sand of time especially in the law profession.

Commonly referred to as “Prince” in Abeokuta his home city, Mr Ajibola was born on 22 March, 1934, in Owu in Abeokuta, to the family of Abdul-Salam Ajibola Gbadela II, who was the traditional ruler of Owu between 1949 and 1972.