The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has condoled with the immediate family of former CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, who passed on early hours of Tuesday in a London hospital.
Awassam Bassey, Special Adviser on Media to the CJN, disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
Bassey said the CJN had directed the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court to officially send his (Onnoghen) condolences to the immediate family of the late Musdapher.
He said: “The CJN had visited the late Justice Musdapher while on admission in a London Hospital. He has described his death as painful and a lost to the judiciary.’’
Musdapher was appointed the Chief Justice of Nigeria in 2011.
He did serve as Chief Judge of the Kano State Judiciary from 1979 to 1985, and a member of the Court of Appeal from 1985 until 2003.
The late jurist retired from the bench five years ago on attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70.
He hailed from Bani Ya’muusa clan in Babura town in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
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