Augustina Igbokwe is a graduate of Law from the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State. She graduated from the university in 1990 and subsequently attended the Nigerian Law School where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws (BL) degree in 1991. She also has a Master of Laws (LLM) degree with specialization in Advance Banking/Investment Law and Maritime Law. She is an alumnus of the Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

After the National Youth Service Corp program, she joined the law firm of Agbamuche and Agbamuche in Lagos where she cut her teeth in law practice. She later worked in various other law firms in Lagos before veering into the corporate world.

In 1995, she set up Tyse limited, a general services company with specialization is safety wares and accessories. Tyse limited has since birthed and become the parent company to several other companies including Tyse Oil & Gas Limited, an indigenous oil and gas services company involved in the downstream sector of oil/gas business in Nigeria and beyond. She is a director of several other companies with interest and activities in manufacturing, real estate, and financial services and farming. She employs over 200 staff in her various companies and businesses in various parts of the country.

She is also a partner in the firm of Igbokwe & Igbokwe & Co, a foremost law firm engaged in Corporate and Commercial legal practice in Lagos. At the law firm, she oversees the Oil & Gas, Maritime and Environment Law departments.

Augustina is the first female lawyer from her community. She was also the best graduating student and the winner of Teslim Elias price for the best student in Property and Land Law as well as in Jurisprudence at the Lagos State University (LASU).

Augustina has attended many courses, conferences and seminars both within and outside the country. Some of the notable courses/seminars she attended include:
The principles of Arbitration and Conciliation Practice in Dubai, United Arab Emirate; Fundamentals of Oil & Gas law in Brazil;
International Bar Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirate;
First Petroleum Roundtable conference in Abuja
3rd Practical Maritime Dispute Resolution Seminar, Lagos
ESQ Oil & Gas Agreements School, Lagos

As a leading woman in oil & gas she was a discussant at the first petroleum round table conference in 2007 at NICON Hilton, Abuja where issues of host community relationship with oil companies, Petroleum industry bill (PIB) and related issues were discussed.

Augustina is currently a member of the Board of Directors of National Examinations Council of Nigeria (NECO). Since her appointment to the board by the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria over four years ago, she has contributed immensely to the improvement of education, the conduct of national examinations in Nigeria and in ensuring the maintenance of standards in our educational system. As a member of the board of NECO, she has been actively involved in developing and implementing policies for the education and development of Nigerian children. She has also facilitated the engagement of many lecturers and educationists for NECO related activities and for supervision of NECO examinations. She participated in a panel of members of the Board for the restructuring of the management of NECO. She is also in the finance and supply committee as well the committee on welfare and staff discipline of the board of NECO.

Augustina is an active member of several professional organizations including the following:
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
International Bar Association (IBA)
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)
International Bar Association Committee on Oil, Gas and Environment Law
Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law
Nigerian Maritime Law Association
Nigeria Association of LPG Marketers
She is also a member of some notable non-governmental organizations
such as the Committee of Friends for Humanity (COFFHA). As the name suggests COFFHA is actively involved in humanitarian activities especially as it relates to women, children and the less privileged in the society. Through COFFHA, she has contributed immensely in empowering of the youth and in reducing employment. She is also focused on upliftment of the less privileged women and children across Nigeria. She was the secretary of COFFHA for four years.

She is also a member of Rotary club of Victoria Island and has through the club been involved in passion of caring for the poor and needy. She has been decorated as a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of her significant contributions to the club and to humanity.

Aside from her humanitarian activities through the above associations, she has impacted the society in her personal capacity through her various philanthropic activities in the areas of health, poverty alleviation, education and climate change. In the area of health, she has over the years sponsored and organized mass testing of members of her community for HIV and financed the provision of anti retroviral drugs to the infected persons. She has been providing access to medical care for people who either due to ignorance or poverty are unable to access medical care. She is also involved in the provision of healthcare for elderly members of the society who lack the wherewithal to pay for medical services. At the inception of House of Gold Hospice in Surulere, Lagos she sponsored the initial surgery in Hydrocephalus (Head surgery) on a child at the Hospice.

In the area of poverty alleviation, she is personally committed to the care and upliftment of the poor and needy. To this end she established an annual event through which she distributes food, clothes and other items to the poor and particularly to widows in her community.

Her commitment to the education of the youth is worth mentioning. In this regard she has awarded several scholarships to numerous less privileged persons and has been responsible for the education of several youths in her community and the larger Nigerian society. In furtherance to her passion and commitment to education she assisted several Nigerian medical students in All Saints University, St Vincent’s and Grenadines, in the Caribbean Islands with payment of their school fees. She found that the students were stranded abroad and could not continue their education due to the failure of the government to pay their fees and bursaries.

She is an advocate of climate change and sustainability of the environment and has been involved in programmes and activities aimed at minimizing and curtailing the human activities that have been the main driver of climate change. In furtherance of these ideals, she proceeded to Harvard University School of environmental studies where she took courses in corporate and environmental sustainability. She also attended a course in integrated and organic farming in Songhai farms Benin Republic. All these led her to set up a massive organic farm of over 50 hectares at Isiwo, Ogun Sate.

Augustina is a deeply spiritual and devout Christian and is actively involved in several groups and associations within the church. She is the current chairman and co-coordinator of Unusual Praise, the largest Praise and Worship event in Nigeria. She also coordinates Unusual Entrepreneurs, an offshoot of Unusual Praise which is an economic empowerment initiative. Unusual Entrepreneurs has benefitted over 400 Nigerians since it debuted in 2018. The following budding artists and musicians – Somadins, Fabian Nwafor, Nkiru Emmanuel, Evelyn, Chukwuemeka etc are some of the talents that have emerged from Unusual Praise and Unusual entrepreneurs programs.

In the church, she is an active member of the Confraternity of Christian mothers as well as Association of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary where she has held several leadership positions.

She is also involved in various volunteer activities. Her volunteer activities include teaching in secondary schools. In her church, she is a Sunday school teacher and a coordinator of children’s Sunday school. She is also the coordinator of the children’s choir and has raised numerous children with talent and passion for music.

She is strong believer in the development of talents particularly in sports and the need to catch them young. To this end she has sponsored several youths to develop their talents in tennis outside the country. Between 2015 and 2018, she sponsored several children to participate in tennis programs in John Mcroe tennis academy in Randall Island, New York and Nike in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She also sponsored several children to a foremost youth computer academy, id tech academy Columbia University in New York which is the world’s premier destination for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) education in the US.

Based on her significant contributions to her immediate community and Nigeria as a whole, she was conferred with a traditional title in 2015. She holds the traditional title of UGOCHINYERE MBA of Umuezeala Nsu.

She is the wife of Charles Igbokwe (Barrister-at- Law) and the mother of Chinemenma, Eberechukwu and Chinazaekpere.