Ukehe Inlaw Epiphany Azinge is the New Asagba of Asaba

Prof Epiphany Chigbogu Azinge, SAN, OON has been elected as the new Asagba of Asaba. The former DG of Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies becomes the 14th person to ascend to the highly revered throne. The Asagba-in-council announced him as the chosen candidate among the ten top candidates for the throne.

Born on the 13th of November 1957, Epiphany attended St. Patrick Secondary School Asaba for his secondary education between 1970 and 1975. He was admitted to study Law at the University of Lagos and was called to the Bar in 1980. He proceeded to the prestigious University of London for his Master's in Comparative and Shipping Law in 1983. He later obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics.

Epiphany spent most of his career as a Lecturer at the University of Benin, University of Abuja and Nasarawa State University. He was appointed the Special Adviser to the then Minister of Justice Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche in 1991, a position he held until 1997. He was the DG of Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies between 2014 and 2019.

He was awarded the prestigious Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2006. In 2013, Commonwealth University, Belize awarded him an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Law. He was also conferred with the National Award of the Officer of the Order of Nigeria (OON) by President Goodluck Jonathan GCFR in 2014.

He is married to Dr. Valarie Azinge SAN, OFR, the youngest daughter of Second Republic minister John Nwodo of Ukehe in Igbo Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State. She is also the sister to both former Information Minister John Nwodo Jnr and Enugu State Governor, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.

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