Afrigather Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore, a former justice of the Court docket of Attraction, is lifeless. Belgore died on Tuesday on the age of 70.
He retired because the justice of the court docket of attraction on April 18, 2023, when he clocked 70.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kwara state governor, expressed his condolences over Belgore’s demise.
“Belgore, who was till his current retirement the presiding justice of the Ilorin division of the court docket of attraction, died on Tuesday evening,” the assertion reads.
“The governor sends his heartfelt condolences to the whole Ilorin Emirate, the bar and the bench, and to the Belgores, who’ve misplaced a uncommon gem.
“Justice Belgore was a authorized large and a foremost neighborhood chief who provided his shoulder for a lot of to lean on.”
In one other assertion, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, the Emir of Ilorin and chairman of the Kwara state conventional rulers council, described the demise of Belgore as an enormous loss to the Ilorin Emirate and the nation at giant.
ABOUT BELGORE
Born on April 18, 1953, Belgore studied Legislation on the Ahmadu Bello College (ABU) Zaria, the place he bagged LL.B (Hons.) with a specialisation in Islamic legislation, from 1975 to 1978.
He completed from the Nigerian Legislation Faculty, Victoria Island, Lagos in 1979 and was referred to as to the Nigerian bar in July, 1979.
The late jurist was appointed as a Notary Public in 1987 and later served in numerous capacities akin to decide of the Excessive Court docket of Justice, Kwara state from August 1990 to 2006; resident excessive court docket decide, Offa judicial division, Kwara state August 1994 to September 1999; in addition to chairman, particular miscellaneous offences tribunal in Abuja.
He was additionally on secondment to the judiciary of the Republic of the Gambia the place he was appointed as a justice of the attraction court docket and was later elevated to grow to be the appearing justice of the Gambia supreme court docket, a place he held until December 2005.
Belgore was appointed justice of the Court docket of Attraction, Nigeria on April 27, 2006, and was sworn in on June 8, 2006. He grew to become the presiding justice, the Sharia Panel of the Court docket of Attraction, in 2008.
In 2015, he was posted to the Ekiti division of the Court docket of Attraction.
He was appointed a member of the Physique of Benchers of Nigeria in October 2015 and appointed life bencher in February 2021.
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