Reflections: Encounter with Justice Egbert Udo Udoma, By Sam Akpe
The Nigerian government wasted no time in appointing Justice Udoma to the Supreme Court on his return from Uganda.
It was at this bastion of scholarship that Justice Udoma created another record as the first Nigerian and one of the few black Africans to earn a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law.
A few years later, in 1963, he made another history when he was appointed to serve as the Chief Justice of Uganda — a position of weighty recognition based on his professional astuteness.
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