Human Rights Lawyer, Kayode Ajulo
By Our Reporter
This is good news coming the way of prominent constitutional lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo. He and sixty-eight others, have been shortlisted for consideration for admission into the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria [SAN]
This was contained in the list released by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee in Abuja on Thursday.
The human rights lawyer was born to Solomon and Christiana Monisola O. Ajulo.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Jos in 1999 In 2001, after graduating from the Nigerian Law school in 2000, he was called to the Nigerian Bar.
He obtained a Master of Laws degree in 2006 from the University of Jos.
Ajulo is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State and Egalitarian Basic Studies Institute, Kumasi, Ghana. In 2013, he was appointed the chairman of the board of Radiovision Corporation by the Governor of Ondo State.
Ajulo is a research scholar in the School of Law at Middlesex University London.
Ajulo was a Labour Party candidate for the FCT senate seat held on 9 April 2011.
On 7 April 2011, it was reported that Ajulo had been abducted by armed men.
This caused the Abuja workers led by the Nigeria Labour Congress to boycott the election. In a statement by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Abuja council, all workers and affiliates across the territory were directed to boycott the National Assembly election 16 hours before the election across the country over the abduction of Kayode Ajulo.
Before the 2015 Nigeria general elections, Ajulo was National Secretary of the Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and in 2019 was confirmed as the Mayegun Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland by the Iba Gani Adams.
In 2020, Ajulo was appointed as member for the Edo State Governorship Primary Election Appeal Committee in 2020. He is the Diocesan Registrar of the Anglican Communion, Church of Nigeria. He is married with children.
