PHOTOS: In Garki Hospital, How Igala personalities bid farewell to Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim CON, OFR, SAN.

 

Dignitaries from across the Igala nation   have gathered in Garki National Hospital , in Abuja Federal Capital Territory, to witness the final departure of renowned legal Icon

Among the roll called are, Former Chief of Defense,Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi CFR FSS,Usman Oyibe Jibrin, CFR immediate Chief of Naval Staff, Engr Musa Wada PDP Gubernatorial candidate,Dr Kashim Akor, DG National Productivity Center, Barr Kabir Usman, Mohammed Audu, Alhaji Shehu Concern, Prof.Seidu Mohammed Onailo, Hon Haruna SAN, JS OKutepa SAN,Hajia Halima Gaya, Isha Daniel AKA Prof, Alhaji Isah YISAB oil,Alhaji Abubakar Kaura and others.

Yet after they have paid their last respects, said their final farewells and departed, a vital aspect of Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim SAN burial will be in Ankpa, Kogi state .

According to Africa Proverb, death is not an end to life. It is simply a transition to a new world.

Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, an igala man from Kogi state was the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. He is an accomplished legal practitioner and administrator who has put so much into the service of the nation in different capacities.

He is the Managing Partner of Abdullahi Ibrahim and company, a legal firm. He was called to the English Bar in 1963. After which he practiced in chambers in England before returning to Nigeria, where he was called to the Bar in 1964. He served at various times as Legal Adviser and Senior State Counsel in the defunct Northern Nigeria. He has been in private practice since 1973.

 

Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim has held various board appointments in several public and private bodies . He has also served the nation at various times; He was Legal Adviser and later Chairman of New Nigeria Development Company Limited, ((NNDC). He has previously served the nation at different times as Federal Minister of Education, Federal Minister of Science and Technology and Minister for Transport and Aviation. He was also the nation’s Chief Legal Officer, as Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice of Nigeria between 1997 and May 1999.

His wealth of experience and knowledge had been of immense advantage to the various tribunals and panels of inquiry that he had served.
He is a life member of the Body of Benchers of the legal profession, and was its Chairman until 2001. He is a member of Cois missioner International, a member of National Boundary Commission ,member of the Nigerian Team that negotiated the Maritime Boundary Treaty between Nigeria and the Republic of Equitoria Guinea and the Unitization Agreement of the Zafiro/Ekanga Oil Fields.

Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim was the agent and later co-agent in the dispute between the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Republic of Cameroon at the International Court of Juctice at the Hague.
Having put so much into the nation, the federal government acknowledged his contributions and conferred on him the national honours of, Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR), and recently, Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON). He was also conferred with La Medalla de Gran Cruz de la Ordre de la Independencia de Guinea Equatorial for his service to Nigeria and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

 

In 1982 he was admitted to the Inner Bar as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. . He is a Notary Public. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He has sat at various times as member (or Chairman) of Arbitration Panels on Local or International arbitration and also appeared as arbitrator in many other Arbitral Proceedings, A member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. He specializes in International Law, Taxation/Revenue Law, Arbitration, Constitutional Administrative Law, Investment Law and Litigation