Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a Nigerian human rights activist, lawyer, professor, and writer has clocked a year older today.
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The management and entire staff of TheNigeriaLawyer (TNL) join the legal profession, family, friends, and well-wishers in celebrating him.
Happy birthday sir. We are wishing you many more joyful years ahead.
In summary, Prof. Odinkalu obtained his (LLB) Law degree at Imo State University in 1987 and was called to bar in 1988. He emerged as the best graduating student of the School of Legal Studies, Imo State University in 1987, and won the Chief FRA Williams prize for best student in Legal Drafting and Conveyancing in 1988. He obtained a master’s degree in law at the University of Lagos in 1990 and holds a Ph.D. in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Odinkalu is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
He was the former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria) and currently the senior legal officer for Africa, Open Society Justice Initiative.
He became the assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan between 1988 and 1989, and worked with the Civil Liberties Organization as director of projects and planning.
During the June 12, 1993 Presidential election in Nigeria, there was intense pressure on human right activists including him based on the role he played at this moment. He left Nigeria to United Kingdom, where he became the legal officer for Africa, INTERIGHTS between July 1998 and February 2003. In 1998, United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Lone appointed him as a Human Rights Advisor. In February 2003, Odinkalu was appointed as the senior legal officer for Africa for Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI)
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