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Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (born 12 June, 1968), is the Chairman, Board of Governors of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). He is also the Senior Legal Officer for the Africa Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Odinkalu is a lawyer and advocate from Nigeria and received his Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Chidi Odinkalu is a Jeremiah Smith Jr. visiting professor, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States is a leading member of the new generation of African legal minds

Background
Born in Ihiala Anambra State, on June 12, 1968, to Augustine Chukwuma Odinkalu and Anthonia Ihunna, Chidi Odinkalu hails from Orlu in Imo State in South East Nigeria. He attended the Government College Okigwe and Government College Umuahia. Odinkalu is a graduate of Imo State University Okigwe (now Abia State University, Uturu) where he received the Bachelor of Laws in 1987. He was the best graduating student, School of Legal Studies of the School. . He attended the Nigeria Law School in Lagos 1988 where he won the Chief FRA Williams prize for best Student in Legal Drafting and Conveyancing. He was called to the Nigeria Bar in 1988.

Career
Chidi Odinkalu began his career in 1988 as an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan between 1988 and 1989 from where he proceeded to the University of Lagos where he earned a masters degree in law in 1990. In 1998, he left to establish with his friends, a Law firm named Eleuthera Chambers. He rose to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Law in Abia State University where he served from 1995-2001. He was also a very active member of the Nigerian Bar Association, serving as Secretary of the Aba Branch of the Association from 1992–1993 and Chairman between 1997 and 1999.

Thereafter, he joined the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, in Lagos as director of projects and planning as well as head, legal resources. At the peak of the struggle for the revalidation of the June 12, 1993 presidential election in Nigeria, when pressure by human rights groups crystallised into a kind of opposition, Odinkalu left for the United Kingdom. This was based on the invitation extended to him by his colleagues in the human rights struggle in UK who were keen that he should start a development programme on human rights in Africa targeted at African governments and countries. It was an opportunity for him to broaden his scope in human rights activism. And he did not hesitate to utilise it.

On arrival in London, he became the legal officer for Africa, INTERIGHTS. Odinkalu used his position to pioneer the development and implementation of Africa niches and strategies for this leading international human rights group.

In 1998, he was appointed human rights advisor of the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Lone, UNOMSIL. It was during the one year period he served in this capacity that he developed, supervised and managed the projects for capacity building of the judiciary and legal system in Sierra Leone.

This upwardly mobile personality was also the senior legal officer of INTERIGHTS for Africa and the Middle-East between July 1998 and February, 2003. Impressed by his intellectualism and sound knowledge of the human rights situation in Africa, the Open Society Justice Initiative, OSJI, made him its senior legal officer for Africa in February 2003. His responsibilities include, developing and co-ordinating the implementation of reforms in the legal and criminal justice system in the continent.

Prior to joining the staff of Open Society Justice Initiative, Odinkalu was senior legal officer responsible for Africa and Middle East at the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights in London, Human Rights Advisor to the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone, and Brandeis International Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Justice and Public Life of the Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Publications
Odinkalu is widely published on diverse subjects of international law, international economic and human rights law, public policy, and political economy affecting African countries. He is frequently called upon to advise multilateral and bilateral institutions on Africa-related policy, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the World Economic Forum.

Odinkalu has extensive networks across Africa built up over several years of working for human rights and social justice on the continent. He is associated with several non-governmental and academic institutions within and outside Africa. Among other affiliations, Odinkalu is a member of the Human Rights Advisory Council of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, of the Boards of the Fund for Global Human Rights and of the International Refugee Rights Initiative. He is also the founder of the Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) at the Nigerian Bar and member of the Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association.

Mr. Odinkalu has worked extensively with groups based in Africa. He is the author of many reports, articles, and books on human rights issues, including Justice Denied: the Area Courts System in the Northern States of Nigeria and “Why More Africans Don’t Use Human Rights Language.” Mr. Odinkalu’s work has also focused on penal reform, refugees, and women’s rights under customary law and he emphasizes the dangers of adopting an elitist approach to human rights advocacy. He currently serves as the Senior Legal Officer for Africa at Open Society Justice Initiative, a program which pursues law reform activities grounded in the protection of human rights. Before the Open Society Justice Initiative, Mr. Odinkalu worked with and/or advised the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights in London, and the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone. Mr. Odinkalu is a former Brandeis International Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Justice and Public Life of the Brandeis University, and Lecturer at the Harvard Law School."

Family Life
Prof. Ojukwu is married to Hon Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court and the marriage is blessed with five children.

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Orji Agwu Uka (talk) 14:52, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Dear Rich Smith,

Thank you so much for your very helpful suggestions you provided while providing the reasons for declining my Submission. I have noted and effected the corrections, and also resubmitted the article.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind regards,

Orji

Your submission at Articles for creation: Olumide Anthony Akpata (June 25)
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Celestina007 (talk) 20:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Good morning Celestina007

Thanks for your helpful feedback. I have worked on the draft and resubmitted. I look forward to your review.

Thanks

Orji Orji Agwu Uka (talk) 04:57, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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Olumide Akpata


Olumide Anthony Akpata (born 7 October 1972) is a Nigerian legal practitioner and the President Elect of the Nigerian Bar Association. He is a Senior Partner and the Head of the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group at Templars, a leading commercial law firm in Nigeria. He is past Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) from 2016-2018. Olumide Akpata was one of the three candidates that contested for the office of President of the Nigerian Bar Association at the national elections that took place from 29-30 July 2020. On 30 July 2020, Olumide Akpata was declared by the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) as the winner of the election and the President Elect of the NBA.

Background
Olumide Akpata had his early education in Warri, Delta State. He thereafter attended King's College, Lagos in Lagos from where he proceeded to study Law at the University of Benin (UNIBEN). Olumide graduated from UNIBEN in 1992, and was called to the Nigerian Bar on 15 December 1993.

Early Career
Olumide undertook the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano State, and upon the completion of his service year, he joined the law firm of Dr. Mudiaga Odje & Co. in Warri, Delta State where he was extremely privileged to cut his teeth in legal practice under the tutelage of the late, great sage: Dr. Mudiaga Odje, SAN, OFR, who was one of the most seasoned Nigerian Litigators of his time. It was under Dr. Mudiaga Odje, SAN, that Olumide learnt the rudiments of litigation and court room advocacy.

Templars Law
In 1996, Olumide relocated to Lagos and teamed up with his cousin, Oghogho Akpata, who had just set up the law firm, Templars, the previous year, after honing his skills in the firm of F. O. Akinrele & Co. under the auspices of the legendary Chief Frank Akinrele, SAN. From 1996 till date, Olumide has worked with Oghogho, and their colleagues at Templars, in building and sustaining a world class, multi-sectoral and full-service law firm which is now in the 25th year of its existence and consists of over 100 fee-earners, including two Senior Advocate of Nigeria, both of whom practice proficiently in diverse areas of Nigerian law.

Olumide Akpata is currently Senior Partner and Head of the Corporate & Commercial Practice Group of Templars which comprises the following practice areas: Mergers & Acquisitions ; Capital Markets; Corporate Law; Labour & Employment; Immigration; Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Technology; and Regulatory Compliance. However, in his over two decades at Templars, practised across the diverse areas in which the firm operates, and has been privileged to lead or participate in some of the major groundbreaking transactions that have shaped commercial law practice in Nigeria and indeed the Nigerian economy. Some of these include:


 * advising the Nigerian Bureau of Public Enterprises on the restructuring and unbundling of the now defunct state-owned power monopoly, National Electric Power Authority, ultimately resulting in the several successor companies to NEPA and the now largely privatised Nigerian power sector;


 * advising on the acquisition of NAFCON by Nigerian investors in a US$152 million asset purchase transaction under the privatisation programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria resulting in the acquisition by Notore Chemicals Industries Limited;


 * advising General Electric on the strategic acquisition that heralded the establishment of General Electric’s oil and gas operations in Nigeria;
 * advising EXXONMOBIL on its 500 megawatt (MW) Independent Power Plant; one of the earliest private sector interventions in the Nigerian electric power space


 * advising American Tower Corporation on its US$1.05 billion acquisition of telecommunication towers and passive infrastructure business from Airtel Networks Limited;
 * advising Azura Power West Africa Limited and its sponsors on the pioneering development and financing of a circa US$1 billion greenfield 459MW independent power plant in Edo State, Nigeria;
 * advising Google Inc. in connection with the legal issues implicated in the introduction of the Google Street View in Nigeria, which involved cutting edge-technology and an enhanced navigation system; and


 * advising Access Bank plc on its merger with Diamond Bank which resulted in the emergence of Africa’s largest retail bank by customers and one of the largest lenders in Nigeria.

In addition to his aforementioned roles at Templars, Olumide has over the years developed and deployed the requisite skills that are a must-have for the management of people and resources in an organization with a current head-count of over 150 people and which operates out of different locations in Nigeria. In this regard, he has, at different times, superintended the activities of the Operations, Human Resources and Business Development divisions of Templars. This model, which Templars has adopted in their approach to legal practice, has paid off handsomely resulting in the firm’s phenomenal growth from a 4-man law practice in 1995-1996 to a tier one full service law firm today. Indeed, Olumide’s experience at Templars, which essentially encompasses the bulk of his career as a lawyer, has afforded him invaluable insight into and an in-depth understanding of all aspects of legal practice in Nigeria.

Section on Business Law Activities
Olumide began participating in the activities of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), as soon as he joined the law firm of Dr. Mudiaga Odje & Co., as a member of the NBA Warri Branch - as it then was. Upon relocating to Lagos in 1996, he did not immediately take up Bar activities because his Firm - Templars - was yet nascent and in dire need of his unwavering attention. Olumide returned to Bar activities upon the creation of the NBA Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) in 2004. He is a foundation member of the NBA-SBL and he worked closely with the pioneer Chairman of the Section, Mr. George Etomi, and his team to operationalize the Section after its inauguration in December 2004 by the then President of the NBA, Chief Bayo Ojo, SAN. He was also a member of the Planning Committee which organized the very first NBA-SBL Conference which was held in Abuja in March 2006, which proved to be a transformational conference that set the NBA-SBL on its current trajectory. Olumide’s active participation in the NBA-SBL led to his election, in January 2012, as Secretary of the NBA-SBL Council. He was subsequently elected as Vice-Chairman in August 2014 and then as Chairman in August 2016. Olumide Akpata served as the Chairman of the NBA-SBL from August 2016 until August 2018 when he handed over to the current Chairman, Seni Adio, SAN, in August 2018. Olumide is currently a member of the Council of the NBA-SBL.



His tenure as Chairman of the NBA-SBL was eventful and impactful. In keeping with its objectives of engendering the professional development of Nigerian commercial lawyers and raising the level of business law practice in Nigeria, the NBA-SBL, under his leadership and with the immense support of his colleagues in Council, was able to achieve, among other things, the following:


 * expanding the frontiers of legal practice by creating several additional subject-matter specific committees that were, and remain, actively focused on new areas of legal practice, with each committee organising periodic seminars and other capacity building programs across the country for members, with facilitators drawn from leading international law firms, Nigerian law firms and corporate organisations;


 * organising two world-class NBA-SBL Conferences (2017 and 2018) at which attendees had incisive and enriching sessions, knowledge exchange and extensive networking opportunities with lawyers, clients and prospective clients
 * organising, in partnership with the International Bar Association, a free training seminar for over 100 young lawyers on the fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice;


 * setting up SBL Clubs in six universities across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria to expand the horizon of law students and enable them, at a foundational level, to develop appropriate interest in contemporary areas of law practice;


 * establishing a partnership with the National Assembly (Nigeria) and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group with support from the UK Department for International Development (UK DFID), to create the National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) as a platform for the legislature and the private sector to engage, deliberate and take action on a framework for improving Nigerian business environment. That partnership resulted in a comprehensive review of the institutional, regulatory, legislative and associated instruments affecting businesses in Nigeria


 * collaborating with the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council on the ease of doing business in Nigeria which involved the review of extant laws and regulations and the monitoring of the productivity and response time of Ministries, Departments and Agencies including the Corporate Affairs Commission ; and


 * inaugurating the Corporate Counsel Committee for in-house counsel and also set up a Task Force to determine the scope of legal work that is statutorily prescribed to be the exclusive preserve of Nigerian lawyers and to work out modalities for enforcing such laws.

At the height of the controversy surrounding the refusal of Nigeria to sign the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Olumide Akpata led NBA-SBL organized the Annual Business Law Conference of the Section to examine the desirability or otherwise of Nigeria acceding to the Agreement. . A year after the conference, Nigeria signed the Agreement, thus giving AfCFTA's dream of increasing intra-Africa trade, which currently lags behind the volume of trade the continent does with Europe, a great boost.



Nigerian Bar Association Activities
Besides his activities at the NBA-SBL, Olumide has been an integral part of the NBA in other capacities such as:

•	participating actively in the NBA Section on Legal Practice where he served as a member of the EXCO of the Law Firm Management Committee from 2012-2014;

•	being an active member of the NBA Lagos Branch and from 2005 till date where he has served on various Committees of the Branch, including as two-time Secretary of the Building Committee - under the chairmanship of Alhaji Femi Okunnu, SAN and Dr. Wale Babalakin, SAN in 2012 and 2016 respectively;

•	serving the NBA, at the national level, in the following capacities:

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 * Member, NBA National Executive Committee from 2014 till date;
 * 	Secretary, Technical Committee on Conference Planning for 2015 NBA-Annual General Conference;
 * 	Secretary, Technical Committee on Conference Planning for 2016 NBA-Annual General Conference;
 * 	Co-Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning for 2019 NBA-Annual General Conference; and
 * 	representing the NBA on the Council of the International Bar Association (IBA), from 2014 to 2016;

•	working closely with the then President of the NBA, Augustine Alegeh, SAN and his team from, 2012-2014, on the following projects:

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 * the reorganization and retooling of the NBA Secretariat for increased efficiency and productivity;
 * 	NBA/Access Bank collaboration which resulted in a N250M per annum sponsorship of the NBA's activities by Access Bank;
 * 	NBA/Leadway Assurance which resulted in the NBA Members Insurance Scheme and which came at a significantly discounted premium and at no extra cost to members; and
 * 	fund-raising for the completion of the NBA House, Abuja which was eventually commissioned by His Excellency Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, the Vice President of Nigeria in August 2016;

•	actively supporting branches of the NBA across the country particularly in Edo and Delta States where he began his career as a lawyer;

•	being a frequent speaker at, and sponsor of, several events organized by different branches of the NBA across Nigeria.

International Bar Association Activities
Olumide’s interest in the advancement of the legal profession has also led him to participate actively in the International Bar Association where, besides representing the NBA on the Council of the IBA from 2014 to 2016, he serves or has served in the following capacities:

•	Vice-Chairman of the IBA Africa Regional Forum;

•	Member of the IBA Presidential Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession;

•	Member of the IBA Credentials Committee; and

•	Officer/Member of the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee.



Olumide is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and seminars including the International Bar Association Annual Conference.

Awards and other recognitions
Olumide Akpata has been recognised as a leading lawyer by several global legal directories including IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and Chambers Global. . In December 2019, he was awarded the Business Law Icon of Year Award at the 2019 ESQ Nigerian Legal Awards.

Other Activities
Olumide sits, in non-executive capacity, on the Boards of a number of private companies, some of which he also chairs. He is a member of several think tanks, including the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the United Nations Nigerian Humanitarian Fund (UN-NHF), of which he is a pioneer member.

Olumide is a gregarious person. When he is not attending a client meeting or advising on a transaction, he loves to travel and to attend social events. Olumide loves to read biographies of distinguished personalities. He is also a lover of nature and would trade savoring the peaceful and quiet ambience of nature (wherever he finds it) for quite a few things.

Olumide is a devout Christian and a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

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