MEET NSUKKA SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SANs)

FABIAN AJOGWU SAN

Fabian Ajogwu Hails from Abbi in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and currently a professor of Corporate Governance at Lagos Business School. He has been teaching Business Law, Negotiation, and Corporate Governance for well over 16 years. He has written over 10 books, published numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic and professional journals, and developed case studies and technical notes used at many of the School’s programs. His current research interests include professional ethics, mergers and acquisitions, and arbitration of commercial disputes.

Professor Ajogwu has his first degree in Law (LL.B) from the University of Nigeria, BL from the Nigerian Law School, a Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M) from The University of Lagos, an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, and a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is an alumnus of the Said Business School of Oxford University and Lagos Business School.

The Learned Senior Advocate has been Lead Counsel to the Federal Government of Nigeria and its Agencies in several cases of national importance. He has extensive experience in deal structuring and has advised on complex transactions in several industries, including Energy, Maritime, Banking and Financial Services, Real estate, and Infrastructure. He chairs the Board of the Novare Group in Nigeria (owners of the Novare malls), ARM Harith Infrastructure Ltd (Nigeria’s pioneer infrastructure fund), and NES Global, amongst others. He is a Non-Executive Director of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, a Non-Executive Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc. He has served as Honorary Counsel to Israel and the Republic of South Africa in Nigeria. He assisted the Securities and Exchange Commission in drafting Nigeria’s pioneer Code of Corporate Governance. He chaired the Nigerian Communications Commission Committee (NCC) on Corporate Governance that produced the pioneer NCC Code of Corporate Governance for the Telecommunication sector in 2014. He assisted with the Code’s review in 2016. He also served on the Committee of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria that produced the 2018 National Code of Corporate Governance.

He was a member of the Presidential Committee on the Reform of the Nigeria Police and is a Fellow of the Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Nigeria, the African Leadership Initiative West Africa, and Henry Crown Global Leadership of the Aspen Institute, Colorado.

His memberships include General Council of the Bar (a creation of statute) of Nigeria, Council of Legal Education (Nigerian Law School), International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Lagos Court of Arbitration, London Court of International Arbitration, Legal Research Society, School of Law, University of Aberdeen. He is also one of the Vice Presidents of the Lagos Court of Arbitration, a member of the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, and previously chaired the Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos.

MICHAEL AJOGWU (SAN)

Dr. Michael E. Ajogwu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria with over forty-four (44) years of Advocacy experience in land, commercial and constitutional matters at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Dr. Ajogwu SAN is a graduate of Law from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), from where he obtained his LLB in 1972. He was admitted into the Nigerian Bar in 1973. He received his Master's Degree in Law and Political Science from The the University of Nigeria Nsukka. He proceeded to the University of California for his Doctorate Degree in both law and political science. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in the year 2000.

His experience in active practice spans over 44 years in practice areas which includes Civil Litigation and Arbitration; Criminal Appeals; Constitutional Law & Election Petitions, and Privatization and Regulatory Law (Law Reforms)

Dr. Ajogwu SAN served as a Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice and as Legal Adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria on Customs, Excise Duties, and Revenue matters covering the Northern states of Nigeria. He was the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Enugu State. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly to draft a Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He is a Notary Public and lectures Law of Evidence part-time at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. Dr. Ajogwu SAN is an ex-Member, Governing Council, Enugu State University (ESUTH), and ex-Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (Nsukka Branch).

Dr. Ajogwu SAN has presented papers on topical legal issues locally and internationally and has also published in journals and texts including; Command Federalism under the Nigerian Constitution” 1986, Enugu and “Federalism and National Unity in Nigeria” 2002, Enugu.

He was appointed Chairman of the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) in March 2017.

Dr. Ajogwu is the father of erudite professor of law Professor Fabian Ikenna Ajogwu, SAN, FCIARB LL.B (HONS.), B.L., LL.M, MBA, Ph.D. (LAW) (ABERDEEN). He Hails from Abbi in Uzo-Uwani Local government of Enugu State.

OKAFOR OFORDILE SAN

Okafor Ofordile hails from Nkpologu in Uzo-Uwani local government area o Enugu State. Born on the 20th day of February 1949, Chief Ofordile was called to bar in 1979 and was named a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 1997.

He is a Former Member, National Executive Committee, Nigerian Bar Association Life; A life member of Body of Benchers; a Member, Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Enugu State's Privatization and Commercialisation, 1992; a Member, Local Government Election Appeal Tribunal, Plateau State, 1996 Leader of the Bar, Plateau State; Chairman, Disciplinary Committee, Nigerian Bar Association, Plateau State

He also holds the title of the Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON.