The first Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in Kwara State and a life member, Body of Bencher,  Dr. Aliyu Alarape Salman, is dead.

Salman, the legal luminary died in Ilorin the Kwara state capital, in the early hours of Sunday at the age of 81.

He was born on November 9, 1942, and hailed from Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State.

He attended the Aladabiyyah Muslim School, which is now known as the Ansar l-Islam Primary School, up to Standard Two and later went to Baptist Day Primary School, Minna.

He completed his elementary education at the Bababoko Primary School in Ilorin and attended the prestigious Barewa College, Zaria, and got the school certificate in 1959.

Later, he went to the Ahmadu Bello University, graduated in 1967, and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School in Lagos, where he qualified as a lawyer in 1968.

Dr. Aliyu Alarape Salman was called to the bar with the likes of retired Justice Issa Ayo Salami and the present Emir of Ilorin, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu Gambari.

He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria on February 27, 1987.

He is survived by a wife, five children, and many grandchildren.