FIFA elects Ayotunde Phillips into its ethics committee

The Nigerian jurist and former chief judge of Lagos state was on Thursday, 11th May, 2017 announced as a member representing Africa in the ethics committee adjudicatory Chamber of the International Federation of Association Football (which is the international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer.

She obtained her WASSCE certificate at Queen’s College, Lagos before she proceeded to the University of Lagos where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law on June 1973. She completed the compulsory one year Youth Service at Enugu State Ministry of Justice and was Call to the bar in 1974.

In July 2012, she was appointed as the Chief Judge of Lagos state and she retired in June 2014. She was also the Chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) in 2016.