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Dele Oguntimoju

Dele Oguntimoju was born in Nigeria in 1962. He was raised in his father's village in Ikale, Yoruba land, until the age of 7 when he was brought to London for his education. Following an early education at Highbury Grove School and the Polytechnic of North London and the London School of Economics, he was called to the English Bar in 1985 and the Nigerian Bar in 1986. He was a City tax lawyer from 1987 to 1997 when he established his own law firm Ogun@Law.

He is a regular commentator and speaker on European and Nigerian affairs. He is a regular contributor to the letters pages of the Economist, the Times and the Guardian. He is the author of the paper "Nigeria and Europe: not-so-distant cousins" which appears in the book titled "The Conscience of Europe" published by Council of Europe Publishing (Oct 1999) to mark the 50th anniversary of the Council of Europe. He writes occasionally for the Ecologist.

He became active in the Movement for National Reformation, a leading Nigerian think tank, in 1998 and has since become the Director of Publicity for the organization in Europe. He is the principal draftsman of the new draft constitution for Nigeria that the organisation has published, reflecting the ideas discussed in this paper.

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