Boma Ozobia

Boma is from Imo State, Nigeria. She had her secondary school education at Federal Government Girls' College, Abuloma, Rivers State.[4] Thereafter, she attended the Rivers State University where she graduated with a LLB and went for her LLM in King's College London.[5][6][7]

Boma Ozobia was the Vice President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association from 2009 to 2011 and became the President from 2011 to 2013.[8] Before then, she was the Chairperson, Association of Women Solicitors England and Wales (2005/2006); Chair, NBA Section on Legal Practice Professional Development Committee. She is the founder and Senior partner of Sterling Partnership. She was also on the Board of Trustees of the Royal Commonwealth Society and was awarded the national honour of an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) in September 2014.[9]

Her father attended the University College Ibadan. Her uncle Ambrose Alagoa was the first indigenous Chief Judge of Rivers State. Another uncle of hers, Justice Stanley Alagoa was also a lawyer who rose to the position of Supreme Court Justice in Nigeria. Her grandfather was also a Magistrate.[10]

Boma Ozobia was involved in the Centenary City Scandal in 2017 alongside Paul Oki and Anyim Pius Anyim. The Centenary City Project was awarded by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014, with Boma Ozobia and Paul Oki as directors of the project.[11][12] The report of the House Committee on Environment indicted Sen. Anyim and made a recommendation that former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed and two directors of the centenary city, Paul Oki and Boma Ozobia, be investigated by anti-graft agencies on allegations that Centenary City Project, estimated to cost $18.3 billion, which was supposed to be a private project, was discovered to have been diverted for personal gains.[13]