WHO IS PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO

Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria's Vice President elect.

BUT WHO IS YEMI OSINBAJO
He is the former Lagos State Attorney General
and a Snr. Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God
(RCCG).
Yemi Osinbajo, 55, is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Senior
Partner in the Law firm of Simmons Cooper Partners.
His tertiary education was at the University of Lagos and the
London School of Economics where he obtained the LLB and
LLM degrees respectively.

He was appointed the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in 1999 and reappointed for a
second term in 2003. During the period of his public service,
he commenced the Lagos State justice reform project.

A prominent feature of that project was the establishment of the
Directorate for Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free
legal services and legal representation to indigent citizens of
the state. This initiative gave a voice to many who would
otherwise not have a way to access their rights.
Prior to that appointment, Osinbajo, a Professor of Law, was
the Head of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos.

Between 1988 and 1992, he was the Special Adviser to the
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. He also served as a staff member of the
United Nations and Member of the United Nation’s Secretary
General’s Committee of Experts on Conduct and Discipline of
UN Peacekeeping personnel around the globe.

He is currently an Ethics Advisor to the Ethics Committee of
the African Development Bank and is a non-executive
Director of Citibank.
Prof. Osinbajo is Co-founder & Board Member Convention on
Business Integrity and the Justice Research Institute Ltd. He
has also authored several law books.
In 2007, Prof. and his wife Oludolapo founded “The Orderly
Society Trust”, a non- governmental organization that is
dedicated to the promotion of Christian ethics and
orderliness.

He is a resident pastor at the Olive Tree House of Prayer for
All Nations, Banana Island, a parish of the RCCG.
He lives in Lagos with his wife,Dolapo Osinbajo, who is a
grandchild of Obafemi Awolowo with three children.