ABIA  State   University will today award Barrister Theo Nkire, the first Attorney General of Abia State an honorary doctorate degree in Law (LL.D Honoris Causa) at its convocation ceremony in Uturu. Nkire graduated with a Second Class degree in Law from the University of Lagos in 1978 and has been in practice for the past 37 years, including a six-year stint in New York where he handled mostly immigration issues. His practices in Nigeria are more embracing.

Nkire after secondary education at Ihie High School and Government College, Umuahia, was a teacher and worked with Radio Nigeria in Kaduna and Jos as announcer and studio manager. He was the first lawyer that Radio Nigeria employed and he set up the Legal Department of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria.