Kogi State Chief Judge, Nasir Ajanah has reportedly died at the COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja.
A member of the family confirmed the death on Sunday morning.
His death becomes the third high profile death in Kogi state in less than two weeks.
Exactly one week ago, the state lost President of the Customary Court of Appeal in the state, Justice Ibrahim Shaibu Atadoga after a brief illness. This was followed by the death of Governor Yahaya Bello’s personal assistant, Abdulateef Suleiman.
Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene local government area.
He studied law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and was called to the Nigerian bar as a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court.
Ajanah later set up his private 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).
