Biography

He was a very brilliant and active student who took part in sports, Literary and Debating activities. He was a member of the school football team and was nicknamed world 7 due to his dexterity in playing football from the outside right wing.

Barr. Kingsley Essien graduated from Birch Freeman High School in 1975. He did his Higher School at the College of Technology, Calabar, and (School of Basic Studies). In 1978, he was admitted into the prestigious University of Lagos to study Law. He graduated in 1982 and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where he was called to the Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in1983.

Barr Kingsley Essien is a very senior member of the Bar and has practiced Law extensively throughout all the Courts and Tribunals of the Land. Barr. Kingsley Essien got involved in BIFOBA affairs in the late 1990s. In 2005, he caused BIFOBA to be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission as a corporate body with a certificate of incorporation. He, along with Dr. Olajide Idowu, Mr. Francis Van-Lare and Mr. Feyisola Dinyo are the Registered Trustees of Birch Freeman High School Old Boys Association.