Career
He is the current Rivers State Education Commissioner since December 2015. Ebeku was formerly Dean, Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Head of the Department of Law at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus and Head of the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria.
He is a practising barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
In addition, he is the author of several scholarly articles published in international journals. Doctor Ebeku has served as consultant to the Nigerian federal and state governments as well as to transnational companies, such as transnational oil companies operating in Nigeria.
Some of his works include:
International Law and the Control of Offshore Oil in Nigeria in Verfassung Und Recht in Ubersee (Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America), volunteer 36 Number. 3 (2003), pp. 457 – 472
"The Succession of Faure Gnassingbe to the Togolese Presidency: An International Law Perspective" (Nordic Africa Institute, 2006)
Constitutional and Human Rights Issues in the Implementation of Islamic Law in the Northern States of Nigeria, in Recht in Africa volunteer
2 2004)
A New Dawn for African Women? Prospects of Africa’s Protocol on Women's Rights in Sri Lanka Journal of International Law volunteer
16 (2004), p. 83-138
The Limited Applicability of Shari"ah under the Constitution of Nigeria, in Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity (eds Rainer Grote and Tilmann Roder, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, Oxford and London 2011).
