Epiphany Azinge

His Royal Majesty Asagba Prof Epiphany Chigbogu Azinge, SAN, (born 13 November 1957) is the current Asagba of Asaba and a renowned Nigerian legal luminary and academic. He served as the 5th Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies from 2009 and 2014. He is a Judge at the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal sitting in London, where he represents Nigeria and Africa. He is the founder and senior partner at Azinge & Azinge, a law firm in Abuja where his wife Valerie Azinge (also a SAN) is also a partner. He emerged Asagba in 2024 following the passing of his predecessor, Prof. Joseph Chike Edozien. He holds the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) and is widely regarded as a symbol of intellectual excellence and cultural leadership within Nigeria and across the African continent.