About Us

HISTORY
Founded in 1999, AJ is a justice advocacy group working to defend the rights of equal and non-discriminatory access to courts of law, expand access of marginalized people to equal and impartial justice, attack corruption in justice administration, support legal struggles for human dignity and disseminate legal resources that help achieve these purposes.

Operating under three mutually reinforcing programmes, the Judicial Integrity and Independence Program (JIIP), the Legal Access Programme (LAP), and the Legal Resources Programme (LRP), all of AJ’s work seeks to address critical problems in justice administration and human rights, serve important public needs and target significant achievement in democratic reform.

BOARDS
Access to Justice is served by an International Advisory Board, and a Board of Trustees. Its International Advisory Board includes Hon. Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (rtd), Hon. Justice Anthony Aniagolu (rtd) and Hon. Justice Olajide Olatawura, (rtd), all retired Justices of the Nigerian Supreme Court; as well as Prof. O. Poloola, Prof. of Law, and Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Danish Institute of Human Rights.

AJ’s Trustees are Kunle Fadipe, lawyer and former member of the National Human Rights Commission, Jacqueline Yemi Odiadi, lawyer and Founder of Development Initiatives, Joseph Otteh, AJ’s Executive Director, Chris Ohurogu, Assoc. Prof. of Law, and Alex Molokwu, Secretary to the Board.