Chioma Agomo Explained

Chioma Kanu Agomo
Birth Date:March 1, 1951
Birth Place:Nkpa, Abia State
Citizenship:Nigerian
Work Institutions:University of Lagos
Alma Mater:Queen Mary University of London
Known For:Gender and the Law, Law of Contract, Industrial Law, Insurance Law

Chioma Kanu Agomo is a Nigerian professor of Law at the University of Lagos with specialisation in Law of contract, Industrial law, Insurance law and Gender and the Law.[1]

Early life and education

Chioma Agomo (née Offonry) was born on 1 March 1951 in Nkpa, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.[2] She attended the Methodist Girls Secondary School, Ovim, but her education was interrupted from 1967 to 1970 by the Nigerian Civil War.[2] She went to London in 1970 to complete her education at the Kennington College of Further Education before going to the Kingston College of Further Education, Kingston, Surrey, UK.[2] Agomo obtained both her Bachelor of Law (LL.B) and Masters of Law (LL.M) from the Queen Mary College, University of London[3] in 1976 and 1977 respectively.[2] From 1979 to 1980 she attended the Nigerian Law School before being called to Bar in 1980.[2]

Career

In 1981, Agomo joined the Department of Commercial and Industrial Law as a lecturer. From 1994 to 1995 she was in the United States as a senior Fulbright Research Scholar.[2] Agomo was appointed a Professor of Law in 1999[3] and has served as the Head of the Department of Law three times. Agomo was a Fellow of the International Training Center of the ILO (ITCILO) and again in 2006 in Turin.[2] In 2004, Professor Agomo was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law, making her the first elected female dean of a Faculty in the University of Lagos.[3] In 2006, Agomo returned to the United States on the Visiting Fulbright Specialist Program. Professor Agomo was made an Honorary Fellow of the Queen Mary University of London in 2011.[4]

Professor Agomo was a member of the National Universities Commission Accreditation Panel to evaluate law programmes at the University of Jos, and University of Maiduguri.[5] She was the Leader of the Accreditation team to University of Ghana, Legon and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Professor Agomo was also a Member of the Council of Legal Education, Governing Committee Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Chioma Agomo. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312060522/http://orderlysocietytrust.org/index.php/professor-chioma-agomo/. dead. March 12, 2017. webadmin. 2015-10-18. Orderly Society Trust. en-US. 2019-05-25.
  2. Agomo. Chioma Kanu. 2016-10-01. The Author. IEL Labour Law. EN. 3–4.
  3. Web site: Legal Luminary Profile: Prof. Chioma Kanu Agomo. Ifeoma. Peters. 2018-09-17. DNL Legal and Style. en-US. 2019-05-25.
  4. Web site: Fellows - Queen Mary University of London. www.qmul.ac.uk. 2019-05-25.
  5. Web site: Legal Luminary Profile: Prof. Chioma Kanu Agomo. Ifeoma. Peters. 2018-09-17. DNL Legal and Style. en-US. 2020-05-29.