The Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, Anambra state will tomorrow, Wednesday June 4, 2025, honour a leading pro-life activist and human rights lawyer Sonnie Ekwowusi
According to a letter addressed to Ekwowusi and signed by the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Nkeiruka MaryKate Orji, co-signed by Dr Blessing Onyeje, Chairman of the Local Organising Committee and Dr Eucharia Ezeumeh, secretary, the award is in recognition of his hard work, dedication and significant contributions to the development of the health sector in Nigeria
A former member of the Editorial Board of Thisday Group of newspapers and Columnist, Ekwowusi, currently sits on the Editorial Board of The Guardian Newspaper in Nigeria.
A legal practitioner and notary public, Ekwowusi is the Principal Partner, Sonnie Ekwowusi & Co. (Legal Practitioners & Notaries Public)
A law graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, he holds an LL.M. in Maritime and Commercial Law. He is also a director of Project for Human Development (PHD), a values-based NGO based
Sonnie Ekwowusi has mastered the strategic political communication methodologies for winning pro-life and pro-family public campaigns and political support. As a delegate to the United Nations, New York, United States, Sonnie Ekwowusi, together with other delegates and Parliamentary lobbyists across the world, has successfully deployed these methodologies in protecting the common heritage of mankind, especially human life and the traditional family as enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
As a legal consultant to many Nigerian Parliamentarians, Sonnie Ekwowusi has been able to assist in preventing the domestication of certain International Conventions and African Protocols that are antithetical to cherished African heritage and African values. He was one of the lawyers who successfully opposed and stopped the passage of the Abortion Bill (euphemistically called the National Institute Reproductive Health Bill) at the National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria in 2006.
In 2009, Sonnie Ekwowusi was one of the lead lawyers who successfully opposed the Imo State Abortion Bill (otherwise called the Imo State Reproductive Health Bill). Sonnie Ekwowusi was one of the legal advisers in the making and passage of the Same Gender Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2011.
He was one of the lawyers who successfully opposed the passage of the Nigerian Artificial Reproduction Bill at the National Assembly, Abuja, which sought to legalise human cloning, trafficking in human organs and women embryos. He was one of the lawyers that provided argument that led to the expunging from the National Health Act the sections that had legalized the harvesting and selling of human embryos, harvesting of human egg and sperm and trafficking in human eggs, embryos, embryonic stem cell research, “therapeutic” and “reproductive” cloning.
Sonnie Ekwowusi is currently mobilizing a campaign to repeal the Anambra State Abortion Law (euphemistically tagged Anambra State Reproductive Rights Law, which came into force on 17th March 2005 when Dr. Chris Ngige was the governor of Anambra State.
Sonnie Ekwowusi is a graduate of several schools and international leadership trainings. He is a graduate of the Leadership Institute, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. He is an alumnus of the Lord Acton University (Acton Institute), Michigan, United States
Sonnie Ekwowusi is a recipient of the 2010 Global Leadership Award jointly awarded by the Leadership Institute, Arlington, Virginia, United States, the Howard Center, and the Bow Group, United Kingdom.
