Apopular constitutional lawyer and former Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN) is dead.
According to a source who spoke to TheNiche, Nwabueze passed on Sunday evening in his home.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria was 91 years old.
Nwabueze was born in 1931, in Atani in present-day Anambra State.
The legal luminary attended CMS Central School Atani from 1938 to 1945 and later went to C.M.S Central School, Onitsha (formerly, African College) in 1947. He left in 1950.
He later went to the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (1956 – 1961) and also attended the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1961 – 1962).
He worked as a senior lecturer at Holborn College of Law, London between 1962 and 1965 and later returned to Nigeria to work as a senior lecturer at the University of Nigeria Nsukka from 1967 to 1970.
In 1971, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Zambia and the Director of Law Practice Institute, Zambia from 1973 to 1975.
He was a member of the Senate of the Universities of Lagos, Dar-es-salaam, Nairobi, Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland between 1971 and 1978.
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