On Friday 8th November 2024, Ezinwa Nwanyieze Okoroafor an International Director of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) and ex-International Secretary was appointed as the International President of the 80-year-old association.
The event took place the 38th triennial convention of FIDA taking place in Cali, Colombia.
Ezinwa Okoroafor is a legal practitioner with over 30 years’ of multifaceted post-call experience.
Ezinwa 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 (NBA) and the International Bar Association; and a Life Member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA).
She is 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. In addition, she is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, Nigeria.
Ezinwa serves on the board of several companies and institutions within and outside Nigeria.
Ezinwa is the wife of Mazi Ugochukwu Okoroafor of Atani Village, Arochukwu in Abia State Nigeria.
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