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Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Jadesola Akande is a distinguished jurist, a widely proclaimed Academician and a renowned contributor to women development. One of the few female academic pillars in Nigeria.
A second class law graduate of the University College, London, 1963, she was called to the bar at Inner Temple, London. She returned to Nigeria in 1965 and worked in the West Regional Civil Service as an Administrative Officer/State Council for one year before proceeding to do the then Statutory three months course at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
For fourteen years thereafter, she taught law at the university of Lagos Law School during which she also worked as a staff candidate for both her Masters Degree (LLM), 1968 and Ph.D., London, 1971 .She currently runs the Family Laws Center, a part of Ford Foundation funded free Legal Aid Center for poor people which she initiated in 1984.