Thread by @EtigweUwa

Etigwe Uwa SAN is a legal practitioner and Senior Partner at the Commercial Law Firm of Streamsowers & Kohn. He attended Methodist Boys’ High School and King’s College, both in Lagos and he is a Law Graduate of the University of Lagos
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He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK.
In 2009, he was conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Finance from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University Boston.
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An indefatigable luminary, Etigwe Uwa led the team of lawyers who represented the victims of the Pfizer Trovan Drug clinical trial in Kano. 11 of the children who were involved in the trial died on the spot & 189 others had varying degrees of deformity. #Abiastate #fixabafixabia

The case was fought in Kano, Abuja, New York and went up to the United States Supreme Court before a settlement was achieved. That settlement led to the building of a $30 Million ultra-Modern diagnostic hospital in Kano & payment of compensation to all victims of the drug trial.

He also pioneered security class actions in Nigeria when in 2007 he filed a class action against a first-generation bank to obtain compensation by way of interests for subscribers to the bank’s Hybrid public offer...

... whose monies were kept for almost 9 months and whose application for shares were rejected without payment of reasonable interests on the monies paid as a deposit for shares.
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He is the Chairman of Lumos Nigeria which, in partnership with MTN provides mobile electricity through solar panels to over 120 thousand customers in Nigeria. He serves as the Chairman of NOI Polls Limited a company that pioneered opinion polling in Nigeria...

...in partnership with Gallup Polls of the US. He is also a Director of Mara Phones Nigeria, the first African company to embark on the manufacture of smartphones...

with ultra-Modern smartphones factories in Rwanda, South Africa, and in the process of setting up one in Nigeria.
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He has previously served as Chairman of the Aviation Committee of the Nigeria Bar Association Section on Business Law; Co-Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Human Rights Committee between 2012 and 2014.

He is currently the Acting Chairman of the Board of the African University for Science and Technology Abuja.
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He drafted The Civil Aviation Bill 2003 which has been passed as the Civil Aviation Act 2006. He is currently leading NNPC’s team of lawyers in defense of a multi-billion Production Sharing Contracts dispute between the NNPC & many of the international oil companies. #etigweuwa

He is an Elder of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and served as Chairman of the Lekki Parish Board for 5 years. He served as the National Legal Adviser of the Christian Council of Nigeria.
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He is happily married to Thelma Etigwe Uwa and they are blessed with wonderful children.

Born in Umuahia, Etigwe Uwa has seen the world through the eyes of the helpless & the eyes of the strong.

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His work as an advocate is more than a profession, it is his purpose. He is not intoxicated by winning, nor is he demotivated by failure.

What matters to him is that he fights to the finish.

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Though he appears soft-spoken, Etigwe Uwa should not be mistaken to be feebleminded, and though he respects authority he is not intimidated by it.

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His firmness in conviction is the backbone of the various successes he has recorded both in his career and relationships.

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Etigwe Uwa has joined the race for the seat of the governor of Abia, with the vision to Build back Abia to a land of honor, as it should be.

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When he is not in the law court or studying, you will find him bonding with his family, or dancing to gospel music by one of his favorite artists.

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