Born in,Odogbolu, Ogun State, Nigeria and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1971. Dr Onagoruwa graduated from University College London in 1964, obtained his LLM and completed his Ph.D. in constitutional Law from the same University in 1968. A member of the Inner Temple of the English bar.
He was also the author of the Nigerian Civil War; Fundamental Human Rights and International law 1969, The Amakiri Case; Press Freedom in crisis 1978 and Law and Contemporary Nigeria Reflections 2004 amongst others.
Dr. Olu Onagoruwa, who attended the Academy of American and International Law Center USA on a full bright and hays scholarship, has served as a law lecturer in various Nigerian Institutions. He was appointed the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the federal Republic of Nigeria in 1993 and was further appointed as the African representative to the body that drafted Ethiopia’s constitution in that same year. Dr Onagoruwa was also the Group Legal Adviser/ Company Secretary of Daily Times Nigeria for several years.
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