A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Dahiru Musdapher, has died in a London hospital according to family sources. The former CJN was 75 years old at the time of his demise.
Musdapher died in the early hours of Tuesday .
The cause of his death was not immediately clear but family members took to social media to break the news.
“My elder brother Justice Dahiru Musdapher former CJN passed on tonight,” Muneer Musdapher, a younger brother of the former CJN wrote on Facebook.
The jurist retired from bench five years ago on attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70.
Almost a year to his retirement, he was appointed CJN by then President Goodluck Jonathan, upon the exit of Justice Alysious Katsina-Alu. He was succeeded by Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar in 2012.
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 as one of the early private legal practitioners in northern Nigeria
