Ajanah, Chief Judge of Kogi State, is dead

The Late Nasiru Ajanah

• The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Nasiru Ajanah, is dead. He died in Abuja, Sunday, after a brief illness at the age of 64.
• The justice’s death is coming exactly a week after the state lost the President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Justice Ibrahim Shaibu Atadoga, after a brief illness.
• The Kogi State Government on its website said Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene local government area.
• He studied law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
• Ajanah set up his private firm, Nasiru Ajanah & Co in Okene, where he practised law between 1985 and 1989.
• He served in various capacities such as chairman, Kabba disturbance tribunal, Kogi, (1994); chairman, election petitions tribunal in Adamawa state (1998); member of the governing council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (1999 and 2006) and chairman, panel on Murtala Mohammed international airport fire incident (2000).
• Ajanah, whose remains will be buried in Abuja on Sunday, served as chairman, election petitions tribunal in Akwa Ibom state (2007) and chairman, election tribunal petitions in Rivers state (2008).
• ~The Punch

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