Solicitor-General Lauds Nomination of State Counsel for U.S Department Leadership Programme

The Lagos State Solicitor General/Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Funlola Odunlami, has congratulated a Chief State Counsel, Mrs Yetunde Abosede Ajayi, on her nomination as a Participant at the US Department of State organised International Visitor Leadership Programme, scheduled to hold from July 30 to August 17, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Odunlami, in a statement, expressed the appreciation of the Ministry, for the gesture of the United States Consulate General, in recognising and rewarding the exemplary performance and productivity of a Law Officer in the Ministry.

“Lagos State Ministry of Justice, arguably the largest law office in Nigeria, has a robust pool of legal experts and very efficient and pragmatic team of Law Officers, among which, Mrs. Ajayi, who through dint of hard work and unusual commitment to duty, has continued to promote the ideals and a culture of excellence, for which the Ministry is known for.”

“The exemplary work ethics of the nominated Counsel, is not only in consonance with the letters of our Mission Statement, but also a testimony of the prevailing conducive work environment in the Ministry, promoted by the Lagos State Government, through the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem.”

Mrs Ajayi, a Chief State Counsel, was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2000, and joined the Ministry as a State Counsel in 2004. In the almost two decades of her employment, she has served in the Directorate of Public Prosecutions and the Office of the Public Defender, where she headed the Training Committee that successfully organised in 2016, the first International Training for Staff of the OPD, in collaboration with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Boulder, Colorado, and Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB).