Dan Onuorah Ibekwe, ya kasance dan Najeriya na shari’a, tsohon shugaban kotunan daukaka kara na Najeriya da alkalan kotun koli ta Najeriya . Mai shari’a Nasir Mamman ya gaje shi bayan rasuwarsa a 1978. An haifi Daniel Onwurah Ibekwe a ranar 23 ga watan Yuni shekarar alif 1919, a Onitsha, ɗan Akukalia da Amaliwu Ibekwe. Ya fara karatun firamare a Makarantar St Mary sannan ya halarci Christ the King College duka makarantun suna Onitsha. Ya ci gaba da karatunsa, ya yi karatun lauya a Majalisar Ilimin Shari'a, London. An kira shi zuwa mashaya a shekarar alif 1951. Ya fara aikin lauya a kamfanin John Idowu Conrad Taylor amma daga baya ya koma Aba a shekarar alif 1954. Ya shiga aikin gwamnati na yankin a shekarar alif 1956 a matsayin mai ba da shawara kan harkokin shari'a ga firaministan yankin kuma daga shekarar alif 1958 zuwa shekarar alif 1964, ya kasance Babban Lauya kuma Babban Sakatare, Ma’aikatar Shari’a, Yankin Gabas. Tsakanin shekarar alif 1965 zuwa shekarar alif 1966, ya kasance sanata kuma Minista mai kula da huldar Commonwealth, Ma’aikatar Harkokin Waje.