Frontline energy lawyer and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Professor Damilola Olawuyi (SAN), has been appointed by the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council to serve on the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights as an Independent Expert.
Professor Olawuyi will thus begin a six-year mandate as Africa’s representative on this prestigious body, a position most recently occupied by Former Attorney General of Kenya, Mr Githu Muigai.
The appointment was made at the just-concluded 50th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Established in 2011 through UN Resolution 17/4, the Working Group on the issue of…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
