Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged Nigerians to commit more to excellence in all their undertaking so as to bequeath to the present and future generations a country that will be an exemplar in the comity of nations. Osinbajo, a professor of law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), made this exhortation recently at the public presentation of ‘Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian (in 7 volumes) held at Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. The Vice President commended the utility value of the publication and described it as a must have for all desirous of improving the quality of legal practice and jurisprudence in Nigeria. He extolled the sterling qualities of the brain behind the publication Deji Sasegbon (SAN) and described as “unparalleled” his contribution to the legal profession through his over 78 volumes of law publications.
In his remark, eminent lawyer and Chairman of the occasion Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) described the publication of Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigeria as epochal. Similar views were expressed by the coterie of Judges, lawyers and other judicial officers present at the event including Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Femi Falana (SAN) who described Sasegbon as a pacesetter and the publication as an invaluable resource.
The reviewer Professor Konyin Ajayi (SAN) described ‘Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigeria, as the definitive encyclopedia of legal definitions of Nigerian law. To him, it is a complete statement of the entire body of Nigerian legal definitions as rendered in the language of the Courts, and based upon the authority of cases of Superior Courts. With its repertoire of over 150, 000 terms, it is perhaps the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published in Nigeria.
This latest publication, was not only conceived by Sasegbon, but was that to which he devoted his attention before his untimely death in 2016. The completion of his work was actualized by his widow, Oge Sasegbon, a seasoned lawyer, along with the Deputy Editor in Chief, Mr Ehi Esoimeme and a team of scholars and editors that Sasegbon had put together at DSC Publications before his demise. Sasegbon passed away on December 10, 2016.
In his lifetime he published the Nigerian Supreme Court Cases (NSCC) in 38 volumes, Legal Desk Book, Nigerian Companies and Allied Matters Law and Practice in 6 volumes and Sasegbon’s Laws of Nigeria in 30 volumes.
