Institute Of Leadership Honours Justice Ekwo

The Institute of Leadership Assessment and Development (ILAD) has paid tribute to Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court.

It described him arsenic a towering fig successful Nigeria’s judicial and world spheres, whose contributions person strengthened the nation’s justness system.

In a connection signed by its director-general, Dr. Baba Ransome Adamu, ILAD commended Justice Ekwo’s enduring bequest of integrity, intelligence depth, and unwavering committedness to the regularisation of law.

Born connected March 12, 1964, Justice Ekwo was appointed to the Federal High Court successful 2008 and has since delivered landmark judgments that reinforced Nigeria’s ineligible framework.

“Justice Ekwo represents the highest ideals of justness arsenic some a rule and a lived experience,” the connection read. “His life’s enactment reminds america that the instrumentality is not lone a instrumentality for bid but a conveyance for enlightenment, equity, and nationalist progress.”

Before his elevation to the bench, Justice Ekwo served arsenic manager of Compliance and Litigation astatine the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), wherever helium played a pivotal relation successful enforcing the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 1990. ILAD noted that his efforts astatine the CAC promoted transparency, accountability, and regulatory compliance among firm and nonprofit organisations nationwide.

A distinguished scholar, Justice Ekwo holds an LLB, LLM, MSc successful Criminology, PhD successful Law, and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree. He is besides a Professor of Postgraduate Research astatine universities successful Zambia and Mexico, further extending Nigeria’s power successful planetary ineligible academia.

His literate and world contributions person been arsenic impactful. Justice Ekwo has authored respective authoritative textbooks connected incorporated trusteeship, acquisition law, and cause instrumentality enforcement that service arsenic indispensable resources for ineligible practitioners and policymakers. He is besides a celebrated writer whose novels and poesy collections—including Storm successful the Will, Beyond the Yard, and The Fall of Silence—reflect the intersection of law, literature, and societal consciousness.

In addition, Justice Ekwo is simply a renowned arbitrator and mediator whose advocacy for alternate quality solution (ADR) mechanisms has enriched judicial processes and promoted faster solution of disputes.

“As we bespeak connected his singular accomplishments, we articulation countless Nigerians successful saluting a bequest of courage, intellect, and visionary enactment that continues to signifier the contiguous and aboriginal of justness medication successful Nigeria,” ILAD said.