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Former CJ of Federal High Court Abdul Kafarati dies

Former Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice A. A. Kafarati has died at the age of 67.

He died Thursday evening after a brief illness. Family sources said he will be buried later today.

Kafarati was sworn in as the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court on September 16, 2017, after the tenure of Justice Ibrahim Auta, ended. He was subsequently sworn in as substantive Chief Judge in June 2018

Kafarati was born in 1954 in Kwami, Gombe State. He attended Kafarati Primary School from January 1962 to December 1968. He attended Government Secondary School, Gombe from 1969 to 1973, as well as the Northeast College of Arts & Science (NECAS), Maiduguri from October 1973 to June 1975.

He studied Law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from October 1975 to June 1978. He graduated from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos in 1979.

After his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme, he began his career as a State Counsel II at the Bauchi State Ministry of Justice. He rose to the position of Principal State Counsel in 1987. He served as Assistant Administrator-General before he was appointed a judge of the Federal High Court on October 31, 1991.

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