Onimim Jacks

Onimim Ernestina Briggs Jacks (sometimes erroneously spelt Jack) is a lawyer serving since June 2015 as the Rivers State Commissioner of Agriculture in Nigeria. She is a member of the Rivers State People's Democratic Party.

Education

Jacks attended Federal Government College, Port Harcourt as a teenager. She holds a master's degree in law.

Honors and awards

• Member, Governing Council of the Federal Government College, Port Harcourt
• Fellow, FIDA
• Fellow, Ashoka

Publications

Works published by Jacks include;

• Using ADR in resolving maritime disputes: a Nigerian perspective, Volume 1, Number 1, Port Harcourt Bar Journal, December 2004
• Women’s Rights under the Nigerian Criminal Law, a monograph. 2003
• Genderizing the 1999 Constitution, accepted for publication, Journal of Public Law, RSUST Vol. 2 2003
• Case Review; State vs. Cornelius Obasi (1998) 9 NWLR, (part 567) 686, the Nigerian Law and Practice Journal of the Council of Legal Education,
• The Problems of the Niger Delta as a Human Rights Issue, a paper presented at the conference on the Niger Delta at Port Harcourt, 6–9 December 2000.
• The Legal Regime of the Local Government System in Nigeria, University of Calabar Law Journal, 2001.

See also

• List of people from Rivers State
• Rivers State Ministry of Agriculture
• Customary Court of Appeal

External links

• Profile at Ashoka