Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore (born 17 January 1937) is a Nigerian

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and

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from 2006 to 2007.

Biography

Alfa Belgore was born on January 17, 1937, to a Fulani family in

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, the capital of

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north-central

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. He attended Okesuna Primary School as well as Middle School at Ilorin before he proceeded to Ilesa Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in

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in 1963 and also trained at

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for one year before he returned to

in 1964 and served magistrate in Northern Nigeria. In 1986, he was appointed to the bench of the

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as Justice. He held several positions in the judiciary before he was appointed as Chief Justice of Nigeria in July 2006, a position he held until January 2007 when he retired.

Membership

*Member,

Nigerian Bar Association The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is a non-profit, umbrella professional association of all lawyers admitted to the bar in Nigeria. It is engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law and good governance in Nigeria. T ...

*Member,

International Bar Association The International Bar Association (IBA), founded in 1947, is a bar association of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. The IBA currently has a membership of more than 80,000 individual lawyers and 190 bar associat ...

*Member,

Nigerian Body of Benchers The Nigerian Body of Benchers is a professional body concerned with the admission of successful candidates at the Nigerian Law School Bar Final Examination into the Legal Proffession. Members of the body are called ''Benchers''. The body also re ...

*Overseas Master of the Bench,

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References

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