A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, has passed on.
Justice Tobi, according to SaharaReporters, breathed his last in the early hours of last Friday at the National Hospital, Abuja.
His corpse was later moved to the morgue of Garki General Hospital.
The retired judge had been having grave health issues since 2011. He subsequently went blind and totally lost his memory.
The deceased was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2002 and retired in July 2010 after attaining the age of 70.
Born July 14, 1940 in Esanma in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, Justice Tobi was an academic before his career on the bench.
As an academic, he was variously the Dean, of Faculty of Law, University of Maiduguri and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services) of the same institution.
