Amina Augie | |
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Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria | |
In office 2016–2023 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Amina Adamu Augie 3 September 1953 Kebbi State, Nigeria |
Political party | Non partisian |
Amina Adamu Augie (born 3 September 1953) is a Nigerian jurist and former justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. [1] [2] [3]
Augie was born on 3 September 1953, in Lagos, Nigeria. She has eight siblings and hails from Kebbi State in North West Nigeria. [4] Between 1958 and 1971, she had her primary and secondary education in different schools including: Abadina School, Ibadan, Hope Waddell Primary School, Calabar, Holy Rosary Primary School, Enugu and in Kaduna at Queen Amina College from 1969–1971, all in Nigeria [5]
After her early education, Augie enrolled at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, from 1972 to 1977 where she bagged LLB. She then attended the Nigerian Law School became a barrister and solicitor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1978. She later enrolled at the University of Lagos to obtain her LLM between 1986 and 1987 in criminology [4]