Celebrated Lawyer, Prince Olumide Akindiya Shared His Award Nomination on Social Media with Shocking Life Story

A Celebrated Lawyer, Prince Olumide Akindiya Shared His Award Nomination on Social Media with Shocking Life Story

I am grateful to God & the organisers of Prestige Excellence Award & Lecture for nominating me as the Recipient of Masses Friendly Legal Practitioner of the Year Award at this year 2019 edition of Prestige Excellence Award & Lecture holding at Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) Conference & Exhibition Centre, Alausa Ikeja, Lagos on Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 2pm. It was three months after publishing me in their special edition of Prestige Int’l Magazine unawares as legal icons with Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, Monday Ubani, Esq & Adetunji Adegboyega, Esq former EFCC investigator & legal officer.

I only asked why the special interest from their editorial board, but the response of the publisher further encouraged me, your profile as a youth is an inspiration to others.

All I can say briefly about my life story and in response to these questions from people why are these awards coming in is this:

“At tender age, i was fortunate to exhibit some talents of drawing, writing, poetry and mental argument on any issue and I was a bit brilliant, but not excellently. Despite of that i once had a poor SSCE result that made me begged my father to forego my inheritance in return for my education through a written note and despite his silence, i took it as my self imposed punishment for my poor result. My father even died before my admission to university and in spite of failed promises on my education, i was financed from my father’s little estate with support from outsiders. With much challenge, suffering, patience, battle and disappointment, today, I am still a practising Lawyer. To stress further, with strong determination to maximise all my talents: At 3 years of being a Lawyer, I started offering free legal advice and services to celebrities, up coming artists, journalists, entrepreneurs, etc even when I was not financially buoyant. I even lost my ex fiance because my little resources were channelled towards humanity so she jilted me two days to my first award and my first lecture as a guest speaker. At 4 years of being a Lawyer, I became a law columnist with a Nigerian Newspaper; at 6 years, on invitation I started speaking about law at events and seminars. At 6 years also, I started receiving awards from community, entertainment, NGO, media industry, etc and my first award was from Oshodi CDA where I grew up from and ten awards from 2015 till date. At 9 years of being a lawyer, i became a Notary Public of Nigeria despite delay. Lastly, at 10 years of being a Lawyer, a magazine was published and a book is being written in my honour with great personalities in Nigeria and I have law books with anthology to publish in future.”

• Prince Olumide Akindiya, Esq.