We celebrate our Chairman Emeritus as he adds another feather to his bright cap. Today, he will be conferred with the Ikorodu Oga Development Association (IKODASS) Fellowship Award for his landmark achievements and uncommon contributions to society through the use of law as a social engineering tool vide his vociferous advocacy, human rights activism, and selfless services which have led to freeing of several indigent members of the society from military dungeons, civilian cells, and correctional centres in his 28 years of legal practice. He pioneered free legal representation of the downtrodden masses and indigent members of the Ikorodu Community in the NBA Ikorodu Branch when through filing of fundamental right enforcement actions he freed Sola Giwa and over 100 others.
Brief profile:
Academic Qualifications & Professional Membership
1. An LLM holder. Called to the Bar in the year 1995 (28 years ago);
2. Member, International Bar Association;
3. Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Management;
4. Fellow, Certified Institute of Public Administrators (England and Wales);
5. Chairman, NBA Ikorodu Branch.
Synoptic Work Experiences:
1. Law Office attachment, Chief Gani Fawehinmi Chambers (1994 ‐ 1995);
2. Associate, Messrs Femi Falanas Chambers (1996 ‐ 1999);
3. Principal, Messrs Nurudeen Ogbara & Co. (1999 till date);
4. Legal Expert to the ad‐hoc Committee of Lagos State House of Assembly on investigation of allegations of perjury and forgery against the Governor of Lagos State, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (1999);
5. Member, Committee for the Creation of Additional Local Government Councils in Lagos State (2001 ‐ 2002);
6. Consultant/Researcher to the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Centre for Law Enforcement Education (CLEEN) on State Violence and Impunity in Nigeria (2001/2002);
7. Member, Lagos State Criminal Justice Reform Committee (2001 ‐ 2005);
8. Member, Lagos State Tribunal of Inquiry on Fire Disaster at the West African Rubber Products Nigeria Limited, Odogunyan, Ikorodu (2002 ‐ 2003);
9. Lead Research Consultant, Review of Nigerian Environmental Laws Project, Oil Watch Africa (2002 ‐ 2003);
10. Member, Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy of Lagos State (2001 ‐ 2007);
11. Expert Member, Review of the Administration of Justice Bill, Lagos State (2006 ‐ 2007);
12. Chairman NBA Ikorodu Branch (2006 ‐ 2008);
13. Member, Council of Legal Education NBA (2006 ‐ 2010);
14. Secretary, Osun State Truth and Reconciliation Committee (OSTRC) (2011);
15. Consultant to the United Nations Development Organisation and Federal Ministry of Environment (2012);
16. Member, Tribunal of Enquiry into the Road Traffic Accident and subsequent Arson and Vandalization of BRT Buses along Ikorodu Road on 4th July 2014 (July - December 2014);
17. Lead Expert Consultant/Researcher, Institutional Evaluation of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (2020 ‐ 2021);
18. Secretary, Human Rights Institute NBA (2016 ‐ 2018).
Some Intellectual Publications:
1. Role of the Legal Practitioner in the Protection of Rights of Prisoners and Detainees to Health (1998);
2. For a More Efficacious Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules in Nigeria (2000);
3. Trade Unions Under National and Collective Labour Law (2002);
4. Nigeria Judiciary and the Federalist Imperative (2001);
5. Citizenship and Executive Provisions in the 1999 Constitution: Critique and Recommendations (2004);
6. In search of justice for awaiting trial mates - a clarion call for urgent action (2005);
7. Criminal Prosecution within a human rights framework: approach and challenges (2005):
8. Current Issues in Networking and Advocating for Human Rights and Good Governance in Nigeria;
9. Corruption and Elections in Nigeria (2006);
10. How to achieve justice and fairness in Nigeria (2018);
11. Expanding the frontiers of fundamental rights in Nigeria (2022).
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