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Nigerian elected as ICC judge
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Eboe-Osuji Eboe-Osuji

A Nigerian, [b]Chile Eboe-Osuji [/b]has been elected as one of the six judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC),  reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York.
Eboe-Osuji and Morrison Howard of the United Kingdom were elected during the final rounds of the ICC election held on Friday at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The election of the judges began on Monday with the election of the first four, among them, two women, at the end of the 12th round of the elections earlier on Friday.
Eboe-Osuji recorded 102 votes, while Howard recorded 72 votes out of the 117 votes to meet the two-third required majority before a candidate could be adjudged elected as a judge in the ICC.
The six judges are Carmona Aquinas - Trinidad and Tobago; Defensor-Santiago Miriam- Philippines; Fremr Robert - Czech Republic; Herrera Venecia - Dominican Republic;  Howard – U.K and Eboe-Osuji  - Nigeria.

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Mr. Chile Eboe-Osuji

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Chile Eboe-Osuji is the current Legal Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where he was Principal Legal Adviser to the Chambers from 2008 – 2009. Prior to that, he was a Senior Appeals Counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and a Senior Legal Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTR where he worked on the case of Bagosora, Nsengiyumva, Kabiligi and Ntabakuze, as well as the Semanza case. Prior to his work at the ICTR and SCSL, Mr. Eboe-Osuji was a barrister in Toronto, Canada, appearing in a number of civil, constitutional and criminal cases at all levels of court in Canada. He has written and lectured on various legal topics, especially in the field of international criminal law, and is a lecturer of International Criminal Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty Of Law in Ontario, Canada.[sub][/sub]

You'd be surprised by the large number of Nigerians whose names don't ring bells. But then they pop up in the limelight just at about anytime.