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born on 22 March 1934 in Owu, near Abeokuta, Colonial Nigeria, to the Owu royal family of Oba Abdul-Salam Ajibola Gbadela II, who was the traditional ruler of Owu between 1949 and 1972. Ajibola attended both Owu Baptist Day School and Baptist Boys’ High School in Abeokuta between 1942 and 1955. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B) at the Holborn College of Law, University of London between 1959 and 1962 and was called to the English Bar at the Lincoln’s Inn in 1962. He returned to Nigeria to practise Law, specialising in Commercial Law and International Arbitration.
Prince Bola Ajibola was chairman of the panel set up by the Plateau State government to probe the 2008 Jos riots. He established an Islamic and co-educational institution, Crescent University, in Nigeria in 2005, and he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN).
He was the High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2002.
Posts and membership of professional associations
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President, Nigerian Bar Association (1984-1985)
President, The World Association of Judges
Chairman, Disciplinary Committee of the Bar and General Council of the Bar
Chairman, Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria
Member, Advisory Judicial Committee
Member, African Bar Association
IBA
Association of World Lawyers
Commonwealth Law Association
Vice President, Institute of International Business Law and Practice, Paris
Vice-Chairman, International Court of Justice, The Hague (1991-1994)
President, World Bank Administrative Tribunal
Judge, Constitution Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994-2002)
Member, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London
Chairman, Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission
Arbitrator/Commissioner, Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Commission.
Bola Ajibola was the editor of Nigeria’s Treaties in Force from 1970 to 1990 and All-Nigeria Law Reports from 1961 to 1990. He has authored many books including ‘Heavens in View’, and various papers and articles on a range of legal subjects.
Personal life
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He was married to Olufunmilayo Janet Abeni Ajibola, who died in London on 8 June 2016. Seven years after the demise of his wife, Bola died at 89.
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