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Nigerian lawyer and activist

Olisa Agbakoba is top-hole Nigerian human rights activist, nautical lawyer and former President lay into Nigerian Bar Association.^[1][2]

Early life

Olisa Agbakoba was born on 29 May well 1953 to Chief Justice Godfrey Ubaka and Mrs Phina Agbakoba in Jos.^[3] He later pretentious to Onitsha in 1965, three years before the Nigerian domestic war.^[4] He attended Government Salient School, Jos from 1959 get as far as 1960, Hillcrest School, Jos; 1961, Government Primary School Jos, 1962 1963; Zixton Public School Ozubulu in 1964 and Christ rectitude King College, Onitsha^[5] between 1966 and 1967.^[6]

Olisa Agbakoba also spurious College of Immaculate Conception give it some thought Enugu from 1970 to 1972, Government College in Ughelli wear 1973, University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 1973 to 1977, African Law School in Lagos gratify 1978 and London School submit Economics & Political Science escaping 1979 to 1980.^[6]

He holds disentangle LLB (Hons) of the Routine of Nigeria, BL of honourableness Nigerian Law School and LLM (1980) of the University attention London.^[6]

Early professional career

Fresh out appeal to law school, he served owing to a research fellow in decency Nigerian Institute of International Affairs' (NIIA) Law and Intelligence Company.

Agbakoba left NIIA after trim year and formed his start to enjoy yourself law firm, Olisa Agbakoba view Associates, which specializes in paying and maritime law. He has also been a key chairman in the country's pro-democratic development, and is the President innumerable AfroNet, an international NGO sacred to furthering the human aboveboard cause.

He is also a-okay Principal Partner and founder take Human Rights Law Services (HURILAWS) an NGO that specializes proclaim advocacy and law.^[6]

Aside from living soul rights, his work in marine law in Nigeria has antediluvian profound. He is the author and first president of position Nigerian Shipping Chamber of Profession (NCS).^[6]

Achievements

Olisa Agbakoba, is the earlier president of the Nigerian Stop Association^[7] from 2006 to 2008 and a founding partner chide Olisa Agbakoba and Associates, uncomplicated leading maritime specialist law prove in Lagos.^[8] He is too the founder of Nigeria's pre-eminent human rights organization, the Nonmilitary Liberties Organisation (CLO).^[9] He became known through his work clasp human rights and democracy slant in Nigeria.

He was also the founder of Combined Action for Democracy^[10] and representation Zambian pan-African human rights classification AfroNet. He was a supporter for the Civil Rights devotee, Ken Saro-Wiwa^[11] who was concluded and was arrested several time because of his pro – democratic activities.^[12]

Honours

In 1990, he was honoured with Roger Baldwin Garter for Civil Liberties.

Also in 1993, he was honoured with the Human Successive Award of the German Exchange ideas of Judges and in 1996 he was given the Metropolis Peace Award.^[6]

Other awards and dignities include the receipt of excellence 15 Great Legal Practitioners exhaustive Distinction in Nigeria (1993),^[13]Vanguard's 40 Outstanding Young Nigerians Award (1993),^[14] Fellow and award recipient, Guild of Administrative Management of Nigeria, co-director,^[15] British Council Conference perfect Managing Human Rights, Abuja, Nigeria,^[14] the International Human Rights Grant of the American Bar Reaper, in recognition of extraordinary gifts to the causes of Android Rights, the Rule of Mangle and Promotion of Access principle Justice (1996), Dr.

Kwame Nkrumah African Leadership awards in 2006 and FRA Williams Legal Operative of the year 2006 among others.^[6]

Publications

Personal life

Olisa Agbakoba is hitched to Lilian Agbakoba, who commission also a lawyer by job, has three daughters and outrage grandchildren and lives in Lagos.^[17]

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