Fani-Kayode, Seyi Tinubu, three others receive Senior Counsel rank
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By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja Nigeria’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, and four other legal professionals have been conferred with the rank of Senior Counsel of Nigeria (SCN) by the Nigerian Law Society (NLS). The conferment took place at the society’s 2026 Annual General Conference, themed, “Justice for All: Non-Litigation…
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[Claude] The outlets differ: Report 2 covers the same conferment of Senior Counsel rank on Fani-Kayode that Report 1 says he rejected, but it reports him as conferred with the rank, which contradicts Report 1's claim that he reje
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