She was born on the cusp of the pogrom that triggered the Biafra Secessionist War to Violet Odiso (née Nwakuche) and Samson B. C. Obiora.
In 1999, she received an unsolicited offer from the World Bank to manage a program to help advance substantive gender equity in Africa.
In 2006, she received another unsolicited appointment to serve as the Minister of Mines and Steel Development for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
[4] She has been the Genest Global Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and the Visiting Gladstein Human Rights Professor at the University of Connecticut.
[5] Obiora is the founder of the Institute for Research on African Women, Children and Culture (IRAWCC which is pronounced as "I ROCK").