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Suleiman Galadima CFR (born October 1946) is a Nigerian
jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
and Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


Early life

Justice Galadima was born in October 1946 in Nasarawa State, Northern
Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
. He attended Government College Keffi where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1965 before he proceeded to
Ahmadu Bello University Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is a federal government research university in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. ABU was founded on 4 October 1962, as the pioneer university in Northern Nigeria. It was founded and named after the Sardauna of Sokoto, Al ...
where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Law in 1977 and was
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after he graduated from the
Nigerian Law School The Nigerian Law School is an educational institution set up by the Government of Nigeria in 1962 to provide a Nigerian legal education to foreign-trained lawyers, and to provide practical training for aspiring Legal Practitioners in Nigeria. ...
in 1978. He later received a master's degree in law from the
University of Jos The University of Jos, abbreviated as Unijos, is a Federal University in Jos, Plateau State, central Nigeria. History What became the University of Jos was established in November 1971 from the satellite campus of the University of Ibadan. ...
in 1985.


Law career

He joined the Anambra State Judiciary as Magistrate in July 1988 and in 1990, he was appointed as Attorney General and the Commission for Justice, Plateau state. In May 1991, he became the High Court Judge of Plateau State. At the creation of Nasarawa State in 1996, he was appointed as Chief Judge of the State. On December 9, 1998, he was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justice. In August 2010, he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice, alongside Justice
Bode Rhodes-Vivour Bode Rhodes-Vivour (born 22 March 1951) is a Nigerian jurist and former justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Early life Bode Rhodes-vivour was born on 22 March 1951 in Lagos Island, a city in western Nigeria. to the family of Mr and Mrs ...
.


See also

* List of Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeals


References

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