BY LINUS CHIBUIKE
JUSTICE Adamu Abdul-Kafarati, the immediate past Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, is dead.
Kafarati was said to have died after observing the evening prayer (Maghrib) on Thursday.
The deceased retired on July 25, 2019 after attaining the statutory retirement age of 65.
The renowned Judge, who had served as the Attorney General of Bauchi State, was said to have passed on in his Abuja home.
Justice 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.
