Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nasir Ajanah has died on Sunday, June 28 in Abuja.
Ajanah was reportedly moved from Lokoja, Kogi state to COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja where he passed on at age 64.
The cause of his death was not revealed as the time of filing this report.
His death comes a week after the passing of Ibrahim Shaibu Atadoga, the president of the Kogi customary court of appeal died at an hospital in Abuja.
Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene local government area of Kogi state.
He studied law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and was called to the bar as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court.
Ajanah later set up his private law firm, Nasiru Ajanah & Co in Okene, where he practised law between 1985 and 1989.
He served in various capacities such as chairman, Kabba disturbance tribunal, Kogi, (1994); chairman, election petitions tribunal in Adamawa state (1998); member of governing council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (1999 and 2006) and chairman, panel on Murtala Mohammed international airport fire incident (2000).
Ajanah, who will be buried in Abuja on Sunday, served as chairman, election petitions tribunal in Akwa Ibom and Rivers state in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
Although the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has so far announced three cases of COVID-19 in Kogi, the state government has insisted that there are no cases of the virus.
It accused the NCDC of falsifying COVID-19 cases in Kogi state, causing a continuous disagreement between the agency and the state government.
May his soul Rest In Peace.
