Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
The the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has elevated 2019 national human rights award winner, Prof Joy Ezeilo, to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Prof Ezeilo was among the nine law professors, three major lawyers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, and 50 other lawyers conferred with the prestigious rank of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN).
They were honoured with the rank by the Committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola.
The law professors are Kathleen Ebelechukwu Okafor, Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrasaq, Amokaye Oludayo Gabriel, Ismail Adeniyi Olatunbosun, Abdullahi Sheu Zuru, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Theodore Bala Maiyaki, Olaide Abass Gbadamosi and Chimezie Kingsley Okorie.
Prof Joy Ngozi Ezeilo currently serves as a Member, United Nations Civil Society Advisory Board on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and also as the Chairperson, Sexual Assault Referral Network, Nigeria. She is the convener of the South East Human Rights Network and also the Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria.
She is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, a global expert on human rights law and has practiced in this field for about three decades.
Ezeilo founded the Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL), Tamar SARC and Girls Will. The Women’s Aid Collective under her leadership provides free legal aid, counseling, safe house and other support services for victims of abuse.
