University of Abuja appoints Mike Ozekhome SAN as Visiting Professor

Abuja Leadership Centre (ALC), a TETFund Centre of Excellence in Public Governance and Leadership at the University of Abuja, has announced the appointment of renowned constitutional lawyer and human rights advocate, Professor Mike A.A. Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, Ph.D., as a Visiting Professor.

The appointment, conveyed in a letter signed by the Director of the Centre, Professor Dahida D. Philip, follows what the university described as a “stringent selection process” in which Ozekhome’s profile “emerged astonishingly remarkable.”

According to the ALC, Ozekhome’s distinguished career spans decades of legal practice, academic scholarship, and leadership in activism and pro-democracy movements in Nigeria. He has served as a law lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and Benson Idahosa University (BIU), and holds multiple advanced degrees including an LLM, PhD, LL.D, as well as several honorary degrees in law, leadership, and the humanities from institutions around the world.

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The letter highlighted Ozekhome’s “deep understanding of constitutional law” and his numerous national interventions on leadership and governance as qualities that would “inspire the younger generation of leaders and quench their intellectual thirst.”

The Abuja Leadership Centre, a World Bank-supported programme under TETFund and now hosted at the recently renamed Yakubu Gowon University, is mandated to re-engineer leadership and governance across Africa through research, postgraduate training, and capacity-building initiatives.

The Centre expressed optimism that Ozekhome’s wealth of experience will contribute significantly to its mission, and requested that he formally communicate his acceptance within one month. [NewsCorrespondent]