The 13th Chief Justice of Nigeria, Dahiru Musdapher, is dead. He was 75.
He died in the early hours of Tuesday, according to his younger brother, Muneer Musdapher.
He retired in 2012, after clocking the mandatory retirement age of 70.
He had been hospitalised abroad on account of chronic kidney problem.
He succeeded former CJN, Alysious Katsina-Alu, who is also critically sick.
Both had been out of public view for years.
Musdapher was educated at the Ahmadu Bello University and the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
He was called to the Nigerian bar in 1968.
He began his legal practice in the North.
In 1976 he was appointed Kaduna State attorney general and commissioner of justice, and as a high court judge in Kano state in 1979. He later became the state’s Chief Judge.
He climbed to the Court of Appeal in 1983, where he spent 18 years, until his appointment to the Supreme Court in 2003.
He hailed from Babura local government, Jigawa state.
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