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          Chidi Anselm Odinkalu.

        1. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu.
        2. Odinkalu, a human rights lawyer who was himself displaced from Nigeria in the s, has devoted his life to the cause of human rights in Africa.
        3. He obtained a master's degree in law at the University of Lagos in before heading to the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS).
        4. Lawyer, activist and ex-Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, shares his fatherhood story with GBENGA ADENIJI.
        5. 34 yrs ago, I was a young lawyer beating my early path in professional life.

          6. He obtained a master's degree in law at the University of Lagos in before heading to the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)....

          Prof. Chidi Odinkalu

          Described by a leading African newsweekly as “a leading member of the new generation of African legal minds” by Oxford University’s Ike Okonta as “one of Africa’s leading human rights lawyers”, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu heads the Africa Programme of the Open Society Justice Initiative and has been nominated to Chair the Council of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission.

          Admitted to the Nigerian Bar in November 1988, Odinkalu received his Ph.D.

          in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); his Masters Degree in la from the University of Lagos and his first degree also in Law from the then Imo State University, percusssor of today’s Abia State University.

          Following the annulment of the June 12 1993 presidential elections in Nigeria, Odinkalu, a principal mover in the civil society response to the annulment as the then legal Director of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), was exiled to the United Kingdom where he pioneered the Afr