Management Team

is a civil rights activist and the Executive Director of Access to Justice. He holds Masters in Law degrees from New York University, New York, and the University of Lagos. He was a Global Public Service Scholar of New York University, and formerly Visiting Fellow of the Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mr. Otteh was a member of the Lagos State Committee on the Review of the Criminal Procedure Laws of Lagos State, and also member of  the Committee on the Review of the Coroner Law of Lagos State. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Cases on Human Rights, an international casebook on human rights, Editor of the Justice Observatory Journal, a justice ethics and independence journal and Editor of Balance of Justice, a judicial performance journal. He has written considerably on human rights and justice issues.

joined Access to Justice in September, 2004. He holds a bachelors degree in law (UNN) and, has practiced law for over 15 years before joining Access to Justice. He had worked as a general practitioner (involving intense litigation and corporate practice), and as National Co-ordinator of the International Federation of Phonogram Industries (IFPI, London). As Project Officer in Access to Justice, He manages and coordinates projects that fall within our organization's thematic interests such as the projects on combating torture, and extra-judicial killing. His work involves driving processes aimed at achieving targeted results in each of the projects. In addition to the core project assignments, Hes undertake considerable amount of rights enforcement litigation and advocacy under AJ's Legal Access Programme (LAP) for marginalised and indigent victims of human rights violations.

In 2005 Mr. Dibia co-authored the report, Breaking Point: How torture and the plolice cell system violate Justice in the Criminal Investigation Process in Nigeria. He is also an Associate Editor of Cases on Human Rights - AJ's compendium on selected cases on human rights jurisprudence from across the world.

holds a Bachelors Degree in Law and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. She began her professional career with Access to Justice in 2004 as a Legal Programme Attorney.

She coordinates the Litigation Desk and litigates AJ's human rights cases before the courts, locally and internationally. She works as the Production Editor for the law report titled Cases on Human Rights - a compendium of ground-breaking decisions on human rights jurisprudence.

She is also actively involved in other social advocacy programmes, as well as in managing some institutional relationships between AJ and its partners. She has represented AJ in quite a number of seminars and workshops within and outside Nigeria.

PROGRAMM OFFICER

joined AJ as a Programme Attorney in March 2006. He holds a Bachelors Degree in law and was called to the Nigeria Bar in 2003. Mr. Nwagu works under AJ's Judicial Integrity and Independence Programme and manages publications on AJ's website. He also undertakes public interest litigation and helps with research on other AJ's projects. He is the assistant editor of  AJ's publication the Justice Observatory Journal and associate editor of AJ's 'Cases on Human Rights (CHR).