Kazeem Owoseni
A Judge of the Ogun State High Court, Hon. Justice Olatokunbo John Bamgbose, is dead.
According to reports, Justice Bamgbose was said to diedd since June 30, 2023.
The 63-year-old Judge was, until his death, a judge with the Ogun State Judiciary and an Elder for the Glory Tabernacle Ministry.
The legal luminary began his career in practising law as a student of the late Olisa Chukwura, SAN, and later established his own legal chamber in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, before he was chosen to serve as a judge in the Ogun State Judiciary.
Late Justice Bamgbose authored the popular Digest of Judgements of the Supreme Court of Nigeria during his practise as a legal luminary before his death.
The judge was married to Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose, SAN, who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation, and Strategic Partnerships at the University of Ibadan, and they both had three children together.
However, He is survived by his wife and three children, who are also legal practitioners.
Reacting to the news of his demise, the Nigerian Bar Association, Ibadan branch, in a statement signed by the branch’s Publicity Secretary, Oluwatobi O. Fatoki, described his death as “a great loss to the Judiciary, the Bar, and the Nation as a whole, having contributed in no small measure during his lifetime to the development of the justice sector and good governance through the instrumentality of law.”
Similarly, the Ogun State Judiciary observed a day without proceedings in memory of Hon. Justice O. J. Bamgbose on Monday, July 3, 2023.
In a circular signed by the Deputy Chief Registrar (Legal), O. O. Adebo, the Chief Judge of Ogun State, Hon. Justice (Dr.) M. A. Dipeolu, mandated that all courts in the State shall not sit on Monday, the 3rd of July, 2023, due to the loss.
