A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He was Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State from 2007 to 2011.
[5] He was called to the Nigerian Bar on 22 October 1987; became a member of the Inner Bar and conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2006; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom) 2007; former member of the Body of Benchers of Nigeria; Notary Public for Nigeria; President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA) (until January 2016); Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission (until 2015);[6] member/secretary of the Presidential Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce (2013); led Lagos State delegates at National Constitutional conference (2014).
As Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, he led the review of the Criminal Code Law, and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law; authored and issued the first Prosecutors' Guidelines (2011); initiated the first African Regional Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP).
He is also an historian and author; his recent books include Ministering Justice: Administration of Justice in Nigeria (Qbooks, 2019); Platter of Gold: Making Nigeria (2016); Possessed – A History of Law & Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos (2014);[8] Commercial Arbitration – Arbitration Law & International Practice in Nigeria (Lexis Nexis, 2011), Johnson and Shasore;[9] Jurisdiction & Sovereign Immunity in Nigerian Commercial Law (Practice and textbook) (2007, NIIA).