Taslim Olawale Elias

[2] He received his secondary education at the Church Missionary Society Grammar School and Igbobi College in Lagos.[3] He married Ganiat Yetunde Fowosere, and the couple would have five children together (three sons, including Olufemi Elias a lawyer, and two daughters).[3] While working at the Nigerian Railway, Elias became an external student of the University of London, and later he passed the intermediate examinations for the BA and LLB degrees.As this was during World War II, with London the target of frequent bomb attacks, he spent some time at Cambridge's Trinity College.[5][6] In 1951, Elias was awarded a UNESCO Fellowship to undertake research into the legal, economic, and social problems of Africa.[1] Elias moved from Manchester to Oxford in 1954, when he became the Oppenheimer Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Nuffield College and Queen Elizabeth House.A few months later (in October 1975), he was elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations to the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
International Court of JusticeHumphrey WaldockCharles D. OnyeamaBola AjibolaChief Justice of NigeriaAdetokunbo AdemolaDarnley Arthur AlexanderAbubakar Tafawa BalewaBritish NigeriaLagos, NigeriaAlma materUniversity College, LondonIgbobi CollegeNigeriantraditional aristocracyChurch Missionary Society Grammar SchoolOlufemi EliasUniversity of LondonUniversity College LondonCambridgeTrinity Collegecalled to the barInner TempleUNESCOManchester UniversityInstitute of Commonwealth StudiesNuffield CollegeUniversity of DelhiSchool of Oriental and African Studiescoup d'état in January 1966United Nations International Law CommissionOrganization of African UnityNamibiaUniversity of LagosNigerian National Merit AwardChief Justice of the Supreme Court of NigeriaThe HaguePermanent Court of ArbitrationUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 708The New York TimesRake, AlanChief justices of NigeriaEdwin SpeedSir Ralph CombeStafford Foster-SuttonDonald KingdonJohn VerityAtanda Fatai WilliamsGeorge Sodeinde SowemimoAyo Gabriel IrikefeMohammed BelloMohammed UwaisSalihu Modibbo Alfa BelgoreIdris Legbo KutigiAloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-AluDahiru MusdapherAloma Mariam MukhtarMahmud MohammedWalter OnnoghenIbrahim Tanko MuhammadOlukayode Ariwoola