Senior staff of the Federal Legal Department on steps of the Law Courts building, Lagos, Nigeria

Original title reads, "The senior staff members are arranged in order of rank with the highest-ranking persons in the first row. First row, from left to right: E.I.G. Unsworth, C.M.G., Queen's counsel, Attorney General of the Federation; and Godfrey Amachree, Solicitor General and second in command of the department. Second row: John Pakenham-Walsh and Tojudeen Oki, legal draftmen. Third row: Basil Walker, Cecil Miller, Duro Adebiyi, Arthure Wheeler, Billie Kazeem, Adeitan Adediran, senior crown counsels and assistant legal draftmen. Fourth row: Diekola Ogundere, George Osakwe, Oladipo Williams, Mrs. Abimbola Omololu, Paul Bamela Engo, Fenibo Peters, crown counsels." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959]

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.