Mustapha Akanbi

Muhammad Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi SAN (24 January 1971 – 20 November 2022) was a Nigerian professor of Law and the former vice chancellor of Kwara State University. He was a member of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the Nigeria Bar Association.

Early life and education Mustapha Akanbi was born in 1971 at Ile Magaji Kemberi, Awodi, Gambari Quarters, Ilorin East, Kwara State of Nigeria to Mustapha Akanbi, a Nigerian civil servant. He obtained his West African School Certificate from Federal Government College Okigwe in 1989. He obtained his first degree in law from Obafemi Awolowo University in 1993. He graduated from Nigerian Law School in 1995 and was also called to the bar in the same year.

Career Academic career Mustapha Akanbi started his academic as a lecturer at the faculty of Law of the University of Ilorin and he became of professor in 2012. Akanbi was a former head of the Department of Business Law, and Dean of faculty of Law at the University of Ilorin and was until his death, the vice-chancellor of Kwara State University, Malete.

Memberships and fellowships He became a member of the Nigerian Bar Association in 1995 and a member of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2018. Customary arbitration in Nigeria: a review of extant judicial parameters and the need for paradigm shift (2015);