Ade Ipaye

Ade Ipaye
Attorney General of Lagos State
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2011
Preceded by Supo Shasore
Personal details
Born 1968

Adeola Rahman Ipaye (born 1968) is a Nigerian lawyer and Attorney General of Lagos State.[1][2][3]

Career

He obtained a bachelor and master's degree in Law from the University of Lagos He began his law career at Oditah Adebiyi & Co. in Lagos as a research coordinator before he joined the services of the University of Lagos as assistant lecturer.[4] He rose to the position of a senior lecturer on October 1999 and later became the sub-dean of the faculty of law on October 2000.[5] On May 2001 he was appointed Special Assistant to Bola Tinubu on Legal Affairs and in 2003 he became the Governor's Senior Special Assistant on Legal Matters.[6] He served in that capacity for 4 years until he was appointed Special Adviser on Taxation and Revenue to Babatunde Fashola who succeeded Bola Tinubu in 2007.[7] On May 2007, he was appointed Attorney General.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Lagos AG okays eviction of doctors". The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Offenders’ sentences shouldn’t depend on judges’ kindness – Lagos AG". The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Leadership Newspaper (10 December 2014). "Over 500 Child Defilement Cases Reported In Lagos State In 2014, Says AG". Nigerian News from Leadership News. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  4. ↑ niyi. "Lagos-State-Attorney-General-Ade-Ipaye". INFORMATION NIGERIA. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Lagos Attorney General Defends Ban on Hijabs in Schools, Articles - THISDAY LIVE". thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ade Ipaye - INFORMATION NIGERIA". informationng.com. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Crisis Loom Over Fashola's Cabinet Composition". TheNigerianVoice. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Lagos to survive on tax revenue following dwindling oil revenue – Fashola". globalreportersnews.com. Retrieved 24 April 2015.