Dahiru Musdapher
| Dahiru Musdapher | |
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| 13th Chief Justice of Nigeria | |
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In office 29 August 2011 – 16 July 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu |
| Succeeded by | Aloma Mariam Mukhtar |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 July 1942 Babura Town, Barbura, Jigawa State, Nigeria |
| Spouse(s) | Hajiya Fatimah Dahiru Musdapher (née Suleiman Galadima) |
Dahiru Musdapher (born 15 July 1942) is a Nigerian jurist. In 2011, he was appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He served as Chief Judge of the Kano State Judiciary from 1979 to 1985, and as a member of the Court of Appeal from 1985 until 2003. He is the acting Chief Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He was born a member of the Bani Ya'muusa clan in Babura Town in Babura, a local government area in the north of Jigawa State.
The progenitor of the clan (his lordship's great-grandfather), Goni Ya'Musa, was a Fulani scholar, a renowned and respected Islamic jurist and teacher who migrated from the Kanem Bornu Empire in the mid-1800s and pursued a lifelong mission of teaching and Islamic missionary work. The great-grandfather settled in Babura Town, in Jigawa State.
Musdapher's father, Mallam Musdapher Musa – also a renowned Islamic scholar – served as a principal advisor to several District Heads across the Kano Native Authority during the colonial era, for decades before he was eventually enthroned as the District Head of Babura L.G.A. Mallam Musdaher's father was the first headmaster of the first primary school in Babura. He died in 1993 as the head of a large and respected family leaving behind over 300 children, grandchildren and great-grand children. My Lord Justice Musdapher is the head of this family.
Attended many conferences both locally and internationally
The circumstance under which my lord was enrolled in school is quite interesting. Sometime in 1949 my lord was actually scheduled to travel east to (Sudan or Egypt) based on family traditions to further his Islamic education as was the practice in those days. However, an elderly aunt opined that he was too young to withstand the rigours of long distance travel and insisted that he be left at home until the following year. Due to Mallam Musdapher's position as a respected scholar and the 1st Headmaster of the locality's only elementary school, many of the children that attended the school who were not resident in Babura resided in Mallam Musdapher's House. So when the "older" children left for school, my lord would tag along, follow them to school and listen to the lessons from the branches of a tree that stood near the classrooms. Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim (Former Director General NTA & FRCN) who was the Headboy of the school at the time ".... to the amazement of the teachers, there was a young boy that kept answering questions asked in class from the branches of a tree and after a while on his recommendation (the head boy) he was invited in. So he did not actually enrol in the customary way.
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