Ade Ipaye

Ade Ipaye
Attorney General of Lagos State

In office
May 2011 – May 2015

predecessor3 = Supo Shasore
Deputy Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari
Assumed office
September 2015
Personal details
Born 1963
Lagos

Adeola Rahman Ipaye (born 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer and Attorney General of Lagos State.[1][2][3]

Career

He attended Igbobi College Lagos and obtained a bachelor's and master's degrees 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] On the 3rd of September, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ade Ipaye as Deputy Chief of Staff in his cabinet.

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.


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