The Team
Not just team, we’re a family.
The Trustees
Chairperson
Ngozi Uti
Ngozi Uti is the Executive Director, Centre for Women Studies and Intervention in Abuja. Rev. sister Uti holds a doctoral degree in Women Studies and is engaged in activities which aim to ensure the practical realisation of the rights and dignity of women in a multi-cultural, multi-religious society with a developing economy.
Head of engineering
Yemi Akinseye-George
Yemi Akinseye-George is a Professor of Public Law and head of the Public Law Department at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. He is Counsel to the law firm of Goldstreet Associates and acts as a Consultant to International Legal & Allied Research Network (ILARN) and Centre for Socio-legal Studies (CSLS).
Co-founder
Uju Aisha Hassan-Baba
Mrs. Uju Aisha Hassan Babas served as the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Anambra State and had served as the Director-General of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria for several years until 2007. Her interests include human rights, conflict resolution and access to justice.
Partner
Frank Odita
Frank Odita is a retired Commissioner of Police and former Public Relations Chief of the Nigeria Police Force. Mr. Odita was responsible for the establishment of the Police Public Complaints Bureau (PCB) during his tenure as the image maker of the Nigeria Police Force in the 90s.
Chief business officer
Ibim Semenitari
Ibim Semenitari is a multiple award-winning journalist with two decades of reportorial and editorial experience in political and business journalism. A laureate of the CNN Journalist of the Year award in 1997, Mrs. Semenitari is also a former Alfred Friendly Press Fellow (1999).
Head of recruitment
Ayo Atsenuwa
Ayo Atsenuwa is a professor of law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos; member of Governing Council of the Office of Public Defender, Lagos; and former Head, Department of Public Law, University of Lagos
Staff
Executive Director
Felicitas Aigbogun-Brai
Felicitas is the Executive Director of Rights Enforcement and Public Law Centre (REPLACE). Felicitas is one of the founding Directors of REPLACE and she is currently charged with transforming REPLACE’s initial project activities from test cases to recognisable and practical strategies
Admin/Finance Officer
Mr. Segun Babalola
Segun is the Admin and Finance Officer for Rights Enforcement and Public Law Centre (REPLACE).
Advisory board
Member
Etanibi Alemika
Etannibi Alemika obtained his PhD with distinction in criminology from University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A in 1985. He is currently a professor of criminology and sociology of law at the University of Jos, Nigeria.
Member
Patrick Olugbenga Eyinla
Patrick Olugbenga Eyinla is a Catholic Priest and previously served as Diocesan Director of Justice Development and Peace Commission and as Director, Church and Society, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria.
Member
Ernest Ojukwu
Ernest Ojukwu is the Deputy Director-General and Head of Campus (Council of Legal Education) Nigerian Law School, Enugu.
Member
Ujudud Sheriff
Ujudud Sheriff is the Chief Co-ordinator of the Centre for Economic and Financial Crimes Enlightenment.
Member
Huldah Fwangchi
Huldah Fwangchi is a lawyer and currently serving as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Plateau State.