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​Otunba Payne: The Ijebu royal and Saro returnee who served as the first Registrar of the Supreme Court. He indigenised colonial law by weaving native custom into the Common Law, while his Almanack—the undisputed "Memory of Lagos"—stood for decades (late 19th- to mid-20th-century) as the Empire’s definitive record.

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