Nigeria, Dec. 9 -- Presented at the 80th Birthday Celebration of Professor Jerry Gana, CON, delivered by PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, Former Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja, November 2025.

Your Excellencies-former Heads of State and Government, My Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Distinguished Governors, Ministers, Eminent Academics, Senior Public and Civil Servants, Captains of Industry, Leaders of Faith, Ladies and Gentlemen:

It is a profound honour to join you in celebrating a man who is not merely a personage but an institution. At fourscore years, the occasion demands not only festivity but reflection-the sort of contemplation befitting a life of extraordinary purpose.

Now, I must confess that when I was ask...