Umaru Abdullahi,
CON (born November 30, 1939) 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 former
President of the Nigerian courts of appeals.
Law career
Justice Umaru was called to the English Bar in November 1966
and to the Nigeria Bar in 1968,
and was appointed to the bench of the
Nigerian courts of appeal in 1983 as Justice.
In 1987, he got a transfer to Kastina State to assist in setting up of the state judiciary and three years later, he was appointed as
President of the Nigerian courts of appeals, a position he held for ten years, between 1999 and 2009 and was succeeded by Justice
Ayo Salami
Ayo Salami, (born 15 October 1943) is a Nigerian jurist and former President of the Nigerian courts of appeal.
Early life
Justice Ayo was born on October 15, 1943, in Ganma, a town in Kwara State, North-Central Nigeria.
He obtained the West Afr ...
A biography has been written about him titled, 'Once Upon Umaru' by Ibe Ikwechegh. Justice Abdullahi holds the prestigious title of Walin Hausa .
See also
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List of Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeals
This is a list of justices of the Nigerian courts of appeals arranged in alphabetical order.
The list also reflect one or more justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria who had at one time served as justice of the appeallate courts of Nigeria.
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References
1939 births
Living people
Nigerian jurists
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