Azubike Onuora-Oguno

@unilorin.edu.ng

Head of Department, Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law
University of Ilorin



                       

https://researchid.co/onuoraoguno

Azubike Onuora-Oguno holds an LLB and BL Degrees from University of Ilorin, Nigeria and the Nigeria Law School; LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa and LLD in International Human Rights Law from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria South Africa. Dr. Onuora-Oguno was a former visiting scholar at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada and the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Netherlands. He has taught human rights in the Msc Law and Society, at Erasmus University Netherlands. He has spoken at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law; delivered the deans lecture at the Thurgood Marshal Law School in Texas. Onuora-Oguno is the Secretary of the International Public Law Society (ICON-S NG) Nigeria Chapter and the Deputy Secretary of the Nigeria Society of International Law. He also is one of the coordinators of an International Research Collaboration (IRC 3) of the Law and Society Association. Prof. Onuora-

EDUCATION

Quality Assurance of Directorate of Academic Planning Certificate 2022
Virtual Institute for Capacity Building in Higher Education

LLD, Human Rights Law 2015
University of Pretoria, South Africa

LL.M, Human Rights and Democratization in Africa 2009
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Bar Qualifying Certificate 2007
Nigerian Law School, Abuja, Nigeria

LL. B, Common Law 2005
University of Ilorin, Nigeria

National Diploma in Computer Science 1999
Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Nigeria

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, General Arts and Humanities

14

Scopus Publications

51

Scholar Citations

3

Scholar h-index

2

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • THE NIGERIA LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROTECTION OF MUSICAL WORKS: AN OVERVIEW
    OO Azubike
    AWKA JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MUSIC AND ARTS (AJRMA) 10 2019

  • The law as a tool to guarantee the inclusive education of the Nigerian child
    A Onuora-Oguno, B Onuora-Oguno
    Educor Holdings 2018

  • Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa
    I Nyarango, JO Ambani, SM Wekesa, E Scheepers, I Lakhani, B Deyi, ...
    PULP 2017

  • Education as a contrivance to ending child marriage in Africa: perspective from Nigeria and Uganda
    M Addaney, OO Azubike
    Amsterdam LF 9, 110 2017

  • A Legality or otherwise of Pecuniary donations by the executive in Nigeria
    AAOO A.C
    Nigeria National Association of Law Teachers Conference (NALT), 644 2016

  • Seeking Solace from a Distance, Jettisoning National Courts: Reliance on Supra National Judicial Bodies to Realize Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) in Nigeria
    OO Azubike
    Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 109, 30-32 2015

  • Sexual abuse and child marriage: promise and pathos of international human rights treaties in safeguarding the rights of the girl child in Nigeria
    OO Azubike, O Adeniyi
    Child abuse research in South Africa 16 (2), 78-87 2015

  • Migration, Refugees, Asylum and Uprooted Peoples’ Rights
    A Onuora-Oguno
    The Sage Handbook of Human Rights 1, 253-266 2014

  • Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill in Nigeria – Any human rights implications?
    SSMPBNA implications?
    https://africlaw.com/category/contributors/azubike-onuora-oguno/ 2013

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa
    I Nyarango, JO Ambani, SM Wekesa, E Scheepers, I Lakhani, B Deyi, ...
    PULP 2017
    Citations: 20

  • Education as a contrivance to ending child marriage in Africa: perspective from Nigeria and Uganda
    M Addaney, OO Azubike
    Amsterdam LF 9, 110 2017
    Citations: 16

  • Sexual abuse and child marriage: promise and pathos of international human rights treaties in safeguarding the rights of the girl child in Nigeria
    OO Azubike, O Adeniyi
    Child abuse research in South Africa 16 (2), 78-87 2015
    Citations: 8

  • Seeking Solace from a Distance, Jettisoning National Courts: Reliance on Supra National Judicial Bodies to Realize Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) in Nigeria
    OO Azubike
    Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 109, 30-32 2015
    Citations: 3

  • Migration, Refugees, Asylum and Uprooted Peoples’ Rights
    A Onuora-Oguno
    The Sage Handbook of Human Rights 1, 253-266 2014
    Citations: 3

  • The law as a tool to guarantee the inclusive education of the Nigerian child
    A Onuora-Oguno, B Onuora-Oguno
    Educor Holdings 2018
    Citations: 1

GRANT DETAILS

2023-02 to 2023-02 | Grant
International Society of Public Law (United States, US)

2020-01 to 2020-12 | Grant
Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Dakar, SN)
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2017-09 to 2017-09 | Grant
Legal Resource Centre (Johannesburg , ZA)