Osai Ojigho

In March 2022, reports first from journalist David Hundeyin and later from the International Centre for Investigative Reporting detailed a close relationship between Ojigho and the State Security Service. The pieces claimed that Ojigho actively and openly attempted to form a relationship between AI and the SSS despite the SSS' known human rights abuses; it was documented that Ojigho allowed SSS spies to gain employment at AI and access to sensitive information.

In 2017, Ojigho was appointed Country Director of Amnesty International in Nigeria, where she has overseen and participated in advocacy and social change campaigns including the Bring Back Our Girls and End SARS movement as well as lending the organisation's voice to various for human rights violations, social injustice, housing rights, and gender based sexual violence.

In 2015, Ojigho was listed by the African Feminist Forum as one of 18 phenomenal African feminists to know and celebrate.

Ojigho was born in Lagos State to the family of Chief Mark Obu and his wife Theresa. She obtained her (LLB) law degree at University of Lagos and a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2000 and obtained a practice Diploma in International Human Rights from the College of Law of England and Wales in 2010.

Osai Ojigho (born 1976) is a Nigerian human rights expert, lawyer and gender equality advocate, who as of 2021 is the Director of Amnesty International's national office in Nigeria. She serves on the Global Advisory Council of the Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) and sits on the board of Alliances for Africa.