Born in 1959 in Delta State, she will turn 57 on May 21. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia studied at the Greycoatos Prep School, London, after which she returned to Nigeria to attend the Federal Government Girls College and the Baptist Girls High School, Benin City, where she obtained her West African School Certificate. She read law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, and attended the Lagos campus of the Nigeria Law School on Victoria Island. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia obtained her Master’s in Law (LL.M) from the University of Jos, Plateau State. A member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, Angel Gate, London, she did her National Youth Service Corps. (NYSC) programme as a lecturer in Evidence and Procedure, Police College (Advanced Training Wing) Ikeja, from 1984 to 1985. She was hired by the firm of Kehinde Sofola & Co., Lagos, where she did her pupillage, before she secured employment in Habib Nigeria Bank Ltd. (now Skye Bank) from 1986 to 1990. She rose to become assistant manager (Legal). From 1990 to 1993, she was company secretary/legal adviser at Unity Life of Fire Insurance Ltd. She was admitted as a principal partner, Ofili & Ajumogobia in 1993, following a partnership with Mr. Donald Ofili until November 2003. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia was sworn in as a Notary Public 1998. On November 7, 2004, she was appointed a judge of the Federal High Court. She is married to Mr Soboma Seniapuye Ajumagobia and has two children, Aribim and Nairobi. Her father, McDonald Ofili, was also a judge; her mother, Cordelia Ofili, was a justice of the peace (JP). In 2013, she allegedly assaulted a clerical officer Mr. Israel Okodugha, with the officer’s father petitioning the chief judge. Last May, Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia detained an American, Megan Chapman, in a prison room within the court for operating her mobile phone while court was sitting.]]>