Popular lawyer and human rights activist, Festus Keyamo is a happy man as you read this piece. The current news about him is that he has been awarded the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee.
This year made it his ninth attempt at the prestigious SAN title. He had been previously invited for interview by the LPPC four times before he was short-listed for the exercise during the fifth attempt this year.
Twenty-nine others, including the Alliance for Democracy candidate in the last governorship poll in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke and brother to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Akinlolu Osinbajo were also awarded the prestigious title penultimate Thursday.