Popular lawyer, Barrister Festus Keyamo has been awarded the rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee.
This year made the ninth time Keyamo had been denied the rank. He had been previously invited for the final interview four times before he was shortlisted for the exercise for the fifth time this year. He had been previously been invited for interview by the LPPC five times.
Twenty-nine others, including the Alliance for Democracy’s candidate in the last governorship candidate in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke, and brother to the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Akinlolu Osinbajo, were also awarded the prestigious rank on Thursday 6th July, 2017.