Chioma Agomo

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]

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]