Olatunji Braithwaite, Lawyer, Activist And Founder Of Political Party Celebrates 82nd Birthday

 Lawyer, activist and founder Nigerian Advance Party (NAP), Dr Olatunji Braithwaite is 82 years old today, 17th September, 2015.

He was born Olatunji Akintunde to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Adesoye Braithwaite on September 13, 1933, the legal luminary was educated at the premier secondary school in Nigeria, CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and passed out in 1953. He sat for his A Levels at Kennington College at the London University in 1955 and enrolled, two years later, as a Law student at the Council of Legal Education, London. He was admitted into Lincoln’s Inn in 1958 and graduated as a barrister in 1960. 

He enrolled as a Barrister and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in March 1961 and has had a distinguished career in the temple of justice.

In 1985, Braithwaite earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) Degree from Columbia Pacific University in the United States, and crowned it, shortly after, with a PhD from the same institution.

The seventh of his parent’s eight children, and the last of his mother’s three sons, Dr. Braithwaite, who authored the book, Jurisprudence of the Living Oracles, among others, is married to his childhood girlfriend, Dr. Grace Simisola Braithwaite, a consultant paediatrician, with whom he had five children, who, in turn, have given them 12 grandchildren.

His son, Olumide Braithwaite, a lawyer turned politician wish his father good health and long life to his active father, and states that his father is his principal role model and icon. However a small get together is organized to celebrate his birthday with few family and friends in attendance.