Modupe Omo-Eboh

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Modupe Omo-Eboh (1922 – 25 February 2002) was a Nigerian lawyer and jurist who was the country's first female judge.

Early life and education

Modupe Akingbehin was born in Lagos State in 1922. Her mother was a granddaughter of the Lagos aristocrat Oshodi Tapa and a great granddaughter of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was himself a descendant of King Abiodun of Oyo. The nationalist Herbert Macaulay was her maternal great-uncle.{{cite web|title=Significant milestone - The Nigerian Observer, 15th November 1969, pg2.|date=18 October 2017}} She attended Queen's College, Lagos before studying law in London.{{cite book|page=135|title=Up-Country Girl: A Personal Journey and Truthful Portrayal of African Culture|first=Phebean|last=Ajibla-Ogundip|publisher=AuthorHouse|year=2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSAd1s8VH34C|isbn=9781468584738}}

Career

Omo-Eboh was called to the English bar at Lincoln's Inn on 14 March 1953.{{cite web|url=http://www.dnlpartners.com/women-blazed-legal-trail-nigeria/|title=Women Who Blazed The Legal Trail In Nigeria|access-date=10 March 2018|archive-date=27 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027060554/https://www.dnlpartners.com/women-blazed-legal-trail-nigeria/|url-status=dead}} She worked as a lawyer, Magistrate, Chief Magistrate, Administrator-General and Public Trustee, Director of Public Prosecutions and Acting Solicitor-General before she became a judge in Benin City on Thursday 13 November 1969, the first woman appointed to the High Courts of Nigeria.{{cite book|page=69|title=Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity?|first1=gretchen|last1=Bauer| first2=Josephine|last2=Dawuni|publisher=Routledge| year=2015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILDhCgAAQBAJ|isbn=9781317516491}} In 1976, she was appointed to the Lagos judiciary.{{cite book|title=New Breed, Volume 5|page=33|publisher=New Breed Organisation|year=1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1wuAQAAIAAJ}}

Omo-Eboh died on 25 February 2002.{{cite book|page=12|first=Gbenga|last=Gbadebo|title=Tell, Issues 9-17|publisher=Tell Communications Limited|year=2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGYuAQAAIAAJ}}

There is a Justice Modupe Omo-Eboh Street in Lagos named after her.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}