A former Supreme Court judge, Justice Abubakar Bashir Wali, is dead.
Family sources told newsmen that the late jurist died at his residence in Kano after a protracted illness.
Justice Wali was the first judge from the Shariah Court of Appeal to rise through the rank to become a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Meanwhile, family source also disclosed that the deceased would be buried Tuesday afternoon according to Islamic rites.
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