Nigeria’s own Honourable Justice Chile Eboe-Osuj on Tuesday, 15 April 2025, took the oath of office as a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
An International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, a Special Advisor to the President’s Office at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, Osuji is also a member of the Media Freedom Coalition’s High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.
Justice Osuji, who hails from Anara Osuh, Isiala Mbano Local Government Area, Okigwe zone in Imo state, Nigeria, first made history by becoming the very first and only black person in the world to be elected as President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Hague, Netherlands/Holland.
He was the 4th president of the International Criminal Court of Justice, at The Hague.
A Judge and a professor of Law, he presided over the ICC from 2018 to 2021.
