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Sylvester Umaru Onu (born 15 June 1938) is a Nigerian judge. He is a former
Associate Justice Associate justice or associate judge (or simply associate) is a judicial panel member who is not the chief justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the Supreme Court of the United States and some state ...
on the
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from June 1993 to 2014. Onu is from Egume, in what is now
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. He attended Government College, Keffi,
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,
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, and the Law School at the School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the federal
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. He held several law-related positions before his appointment to the Court of Appeal in 1984, which he left for the Supreme Court in 1993.


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* https://www.forevermissed.com/honjusticesylvester-umaru-onu/about * https://infohub.projecttopics.org/1912480-sylvester-umaru-onu Living people 1938 births Alumni of SOAS University of London Supreme Court of Nigeria justices {{nigeria-law-bio-stub