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Nigerian-born Dapo Akande, a professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, has been elected into the International Law Commission (ILC).

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) announced the development on Friday.

Akande was nominated as the UK and Nigeria’s candidate for the commission.

His nomination made him the first-ever candidate to be selected in a t nomination by the UK and Nigeria.

His nomination was also ed by Japan, Kenya and Slovenia.

The UK government had described his nomination as a demonstration of the UK and Nigeria’s “shared confidence that he will bring those high standards to the ILC”.

Akande will serve as a member of ILC for a five-year term.

Raised in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, Akande studied law at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun state.

He is a world-renowned expert in public international law with more than 25 years of legal experience.

He began his legal career as a research assistant to Bola Ajibola, a former attorney-general of Nigeria, and has also worked as a counsel on international litigation before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), World Trade Organisation (WTO), International Criminal Court (ICC), and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Akande has also served as a consultant to several international organisations, including the ICC, UN, the African Union (AU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

The International Law Commission was established by the UN general assembly in 1947 to undertake the mandate of the assembly, initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification.

https://www.thecable.ng/nigerian-born-dapo-akande-elected-into-un-law-commission/

Congratulations omo yoruba atata
God bless yoruba nation

Great Ife

Something good will definitely happen to Nigeria after 2023.

More success in your life
Congratulations

Awa lagba, omoluabi kaare

YORUBA: MY TRIBE MY PRIDE.
Below link confirm it that Yoruba is the largest tribe in the United States of America and the most spoken Nigeria language in the United States of America. Awa l'agba

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancesty&g=0400000US04
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancestry&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B04006
http://data.census.gov/mdat/#/search?ds=ACSPUMS1Y2019&rv=LANP&wt=PWGTP

Yoruba my tribe, if I'm not Yoruba I will be jealous of them

Good, congrats to him. We only hear about them after making it big in life.

In Nigeria nobody cares about your existence until you make it either here or outside.

Once we talk of merits abroad, you hardly see a fulani person.

Nigeria deserves to be split

Congrats to him

Na why e good make person go school, southerns value education so much and it pays them good..


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Congratulations

Omoluabi great one

Congratulations,
Go and soar!!!

See his Ewedu face


Anyways congrats to him

Am happy for you brother, enjoy urself

Yoruba Yo yo bi ina ale, Yoruba ru ru ru bi omi okun, Yoruba baba ni baba n se.

Peace be unto Yoruba and it's people all over the world..

Yorubas and igbos making us proud...

When they mentioned in the past the greatest black nation and giants of africa, they meant the southern region were the human capital is strong enough.

But the devilish british empire made sure it didn't come to fruitation.

Igbo amaka

TotoGame:
See his Ewedu face


Anyways congrats to him

let see ur ogbono face

This man? Wow. I'm not surprised. Congrats

Rydermaverick:
Peace be unto Yoruba and it's people all over the world..

peace be unto you too

Let him not go there to start mining skulls

If only there could be southern Nigeria aswerugud no Africa country could compete.
Ever wonder anytime you here about a nigerian abroad doing us proud, your guess is good as mine as where the individual is coming from.

Some people from the region of born to locally rule will not like this

Cheats where is tacha ..mercy..y where they not elected yoruba and cheating

temitope27:
peace be unto you too

Thank you..

Lucky him...e no too concern me