Nigeria’s Ezinwa Okoroafor Elected FIDA International President

Last Friday 8th November, 2024, Nigeria occupied international headlines, with the emergence of Mrs Ezinwa Nwanyieze Okoroafor as President of International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA).     

The event took place the 38th Triennial Convention of the 80-year old Association, which took place in Cali, Colombia.

Ezinwa Okoroafor is a legal practitioner with over 30 years’ of multifaceted post-call experience. She graduated from the University of Nigeria with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1985, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986. She holds a Master’s degree in Law (1989) from the University of Lagos. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and a Life Member of FIDA. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK, Nigeria Branch, as well as the Institute of Directors Nigeria.