The doyen of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) in Kwara state, Dr. Aliyu Alarape Salman, is dead.
Dr. Salman died at 81, in the early hours of Sunday, January 7, in Ilorin, the capital of the state.
He will be buried today following Islamic injunctions at his Ilorin residence.
The arrangements for the burial rites were said to have been.
Dr Salman (SAN) was born on November 9, 1942.
A former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin Branch, Dr. Mobolaji Ojibara announced his death.
He wrote: “The Doyen of Senior Advocates in Kwara state, Dr. Aliyu Alarape Salman, SAN (Salman Salman’s dad) died peacefully in his sleep this morning.
“The janazah (burial) takes place today at his residence, No 53 Aderemi Adeleye Street, GRA. Ilorin, by 4 pm.
“May Allah be please with him, and grant him Aljannat firdaus.”
Dr. Salman attended the popular Barewa College and the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.
He was called to the Nigerian Bar in Lagos in 1968. His contemporaries in the Bar included Justice Issa Ayo Salami and Justice Adegbite and the reigning Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Kolapi Sulu-Gambari.
After he graduated from Law School, in Lagos, where he qualified as a lawyer in 1968, he started work in the Ministry of Justice in Sokoto and was a deputy Solicitor-General.
In 1976, he was appointed the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in Kwara State, where he worked till 1978 and resigned to establish his law firm known as SARRA Chambers, an acronym of the first letters of the names of his five children
He worked in his chambers until his death.
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