A young Nigerian attorney, Adaku Ufere, has won the ‘Attorney of the
Year’ in this year’s edition of the African Legal Awards....
The African
Legal Awards recognizes exceptional achievements from within Africa’s
legal community, and is hosted by Legal Week (organisers of the British
Legal Awards), in association with the Corporate Counsel Association of
South Africa (CCASA). Ufere was selected from thousands of entries
across the African continent. She is the youngest ever, and first
Nigerian winner of the Attorney of the Year award.
Ufere is a graduate of Law from the
University of Nigeria. She also bagged a Second Class Honours Upper
Division grade from the Nigeria Law School, Abuja, before proceeding to
the University of Aberdeen in Scotland for her Master’s Degree in Law,
where she specialised in Oil and Gas Law.
Born into the largely academic family of
Chief and Chief Mrs. Kingsley Ufere, from Arondizuogu in Ideato North
Local Government Area of Imo State, Ufere is an international oil and
gas lawyer and is Head of the Energy Practice at the Pan African Law
firm, the Centurion Law Group with its Headquarters in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Only last year she received an award as one of the 40
under 40 Leading Lawyers in Nigeria at the Nigerian Legal Awards 2016,
which held at the Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos.
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