found: Perspectives on public and international law, 2018:page xii (Chief 'Folake Solanke, SAN, OON, CON, B.A., Dip.Ed., FNIALS, LL.D, D.Litt, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in facsimile typed letter with letterhead) page xvii (our dear mother in the law, Chief Folake Sholanke, SAN)
found: Vanguard (online), Solanke, SAN: a lady of many firsts, January 9, 2020, viewed October 6, 2020(Chief Folake Solanke; Nigerian lawyer, administrator and social critic; born in Abeokuta on March 29, 1932 to the prominent J.S. Odulate (founder of Alabukun Medicine) and Madam Sekumade Abiodun Odulate; attended Methodist Girls High School, Yaba Lagos, 1945-1949; in 1949 she became the first student of the school to obtain grade one at the West Africa School Certificate Examinations; in 1950 she did a 1-year course in Queens' College, Onikan Lagos; in 1951 she entered King's College, University of Durham (now University of Newcastle) where she obtained her BA in Latin and Mathematics in 1954; diploma certificate in education 1955; Chief Olufolake Solanke, SAN; taught Latin and Mathemetics for 2 years at Pipers Corner School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, then at St. Monica's School, England, 1957-1958; she later taught Latin and Mathematics at Yejide Girls Grammar School in Ibadan; admitted into Gray's Inn, London to read for a degree in law in 1960, called to the English bar in 1962; married the late Emeritus Professor Toriola Solanke; in 1972 she was appointed commissioner, Western State of Nigeria, as well as Chairman, Western Nigeria Television Broadcasting Corporation (WNTBC); has received numerous awards, including the National Honour of the Commander of the Order of Niger, and honorary doctorate degrees from universities across Nigeria; following her conferment with Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 1981, she was installed the Yeyemofin of Ife by the Ooni, Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olabuse II; her publications cover areas including law, women's rights, Zonta and Christian topics; in 2012 Solanke received the International Bar Association's Outstanding International Woman Lawyer Award at the Association's 5th World Women Lawyers' Conference in London; first African to be named President (42nd) of Zonta, an international women empowerment organization, on July 21, 1994; has continued to devote her twilight years to the cause of gender empowerment and is mentor to younger women)
