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Dr Agada Akogwu, LLB,BL,LLM, PGDE,PhD

Dr Agada Akogwu is a Nigerian federal prosecutor with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).He is currently the Head of Legal Department of the Rivers State office.

Dr Agada hails from the Ogbadibo local government area of Benue State, Nigeria. His hometown is Orokam. He was born to the family of Mr and Mrs Abah Agada on the 28 November 1985 in Otukpo the capital city of the Idoma people. He is Idoma by tribe.

Dr Agada Akogwu obtained his primary education at Makurdi International Primary School and secondary school education at the prestigious Wesley High School, Otukpo in between 1993 and 1999. In the year 2000, he proceeded to the University of Maiduguri, Borno State for his law degree. In 2006, he graduated with a Bachelors in Law (LLB). He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School for his Barrister-at-Law degree and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2008 as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He completed his compulsory National Youth Service Corps program in Enugu State in 2009. In 2010, he proceeded to the University of Jos, Plateau State and obtained his Masters degree in Law (LLM), specialising in Human Rights. In 2014, he gained admission to the University of Pretoria, South Africa for his doctorate degree in Law (LLD) under the supervision of Prof Frans Viljoen. He bagged the PhD in law in the year 2018 specialising in International human rights law.

Dr Agada Akogwu as a scholar and researcher is published extensively in local and international journals of repute. In his undergraduate days at the University of Maiduguri he published two books-In Pursuit of Career and the second The Power of Association. He authored the book Secret Cultism in Nigerian Secondary and Tertiary Institutions while he was at the University of Jos. Dr Agada edited the well received book volume Combating The Menace of Corruption in Nigeria : A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation, a book reputed to be Nigeria's most comprehensive and integrated work on corruption.

Dr Agada Akogwu is a writer, a poet, public speaker and a human rights activist.