# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olisa-agbakoba
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:21.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olisa-agbakoba"
name: "Olisa Agbakoba"
slug: "olisa-agbakoba"
description: "Olisa Agbakoba is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a Senior Life Bencher of the Body of Benchers. He served as President of the Civil Liberties Organisation (1987–1995) and President of the Nigerian Bar Association (2006–2008) and was conferred a National Honour, The Order of the Niger (OON), on 18 December 2001. He is the founding partner of Olisa Agbakoba Legal (OAL), where he serves as the Head of the Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice group. He is widely regarded as one of Nigeria's leading authority on Constitutional Law, Maritime Law, Human Rights Law, Development Law, Space Law, Arbitration, Environmental Justice and Legal Policy."
tagline: "Nigerian human rights activist, maritime lawyer and former President of Nigerian Bar Association"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1953-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             6.874999999999998
  historical:           5.743305333333334
  currentAttention:     38.19444444444444
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://oal.law/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olisa_Agbakoba"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "اوليسا اجباكوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Agbakoba"
    title: "Olisa Agbakoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Agbakoba"
    title: "Olisa Agbakoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Agbakoba"
    title: "Olisa Agbakoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Agbakoba"
    title: "Olisa Agbakoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olisa_Agbakoba"
    title: "Olisa Agbakoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1167793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump