Rosaline Omotosho
| Rosaline Omotosho | |
|---|---|
| Died | Éwn malábó:Death date |
| Alma mater | CMS Girls School Lagos |
| Occupation | Judge |
Roseline or Rosaline Ajoke Omotosho, née Shonola - Shoyinka (í kwu efí ọdọ 1999) í chí ẹ̀nẹká efü amá‘kájọ́ Naijẹria . Kwí ègbá kochu ẹ́kẹ̀le nólu mẹ́gwẹ́jí efu ọdọ 1995 ló tí éfu ochú èkéji nólu ógwu nyọ mẹbíe efu ọdọ 1996, í ñô chí Chief Judge of Lagos State.[1] ownú chí akajo ógíjo eju-odudú efú abobule efú Naijẹria Nigeria, kpai indeed in West Africa.[2]
Life
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]Rosaline Omotosho's maiden alúmẹ́jí odù wń chí Sonola-Soyinka.[3] í ló tí ísakulu yé CMS Girls School Lagos,anúbíle íya mí ró‘da ló tokí ẹ gwugwu efi-ewo Ìbàdóo kpaí merged manyú Kudeti ísakulu yé àbòbule kú má rí oódu-wn dà tí St Anne's School Ibadan. She worked as a clerk in the Health Department, Lagos between 1949 and 1953.[4] She studied for the Bar at Gray's Inn from 1957 to 1959. She was called to the English Bar on 7 February 1961 and enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 15 June 1961.[5]
Omotosho worked for a few months at Burke and Impey before starting in September 1961 as a Pupil Crown Counsel in the Federal Ministry of Justice. She became State Counsel in June 1963, Senior legal Assistant in May 1965, and State Counsel Grade 1 in September 1966. In July 1968 she was appointed acting Deputy Administrator-General, and in October 1968 was appointed acting Registrar of commercial Legislation. She was appointed Director of Commercial Law on 1 April 1976.[4]
She joined the High Court of Lagos State on 6 March 1978.[5] She succeeded Justice Ayorinde as Chief Judge of Lagos State, taking office on 12 April 1995. On 27 February 1997, she stepped down, and was succeeded by Justice Olusola Thomas.[2]
She died on 1 July 1999.[5] At a service held in her honor, Justice Christopher Olatunde Segun appealed for divine intervention to stop the rate of deaths affecting the state judiciary.[6] In 2015 she was memorialized by a new courthouse in Ikeja named after her.[4]
References
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]- ↑ Siyan Oyeweso, Breaking the Yoke of Patriarchy: Nigerian Women in the various Professions, Politics and Governance, 1914-2014, 2014, p.10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Lagos State Judiciary
- ↑ Gbade Aladeojebi (2016). "St. Anne's School, Ibadan". History of Yoruba Land. Partridge Publishing Africa. pp. 140–1. ISBN 978-1-4828-6248-5.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Adebisi Onanuga, Lagos immortalises first woman CJ, The Nation, 10 March 2015. Accessed 12 March 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Peters Ifeoma, Women who blazed the Legal Trail in Nigeria, DNL Legal and Style, 8 March 2017. Accessed 12 March 2020.
- ↑ Adewale Busari, Nigeria: Deaths In Lagos Judiciary CJ Seeks Divine Intervention, P. M. News, 16 July 1999. Accessed 12 March 2020.