Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore Explained

Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore
Honorific Suffix:GCON
Office1:Chief Justice of Nigeria
Term Start1:12 June 2006
Term End1:17 January 2007
Predecessor1:Muhammad Lawal Uwais
Successor1:Idris Legbo Kutigi
Birth Date:1937 1, df=yes
Party:Non partisan

Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore (born 17 January 1937) is a Nigerian jurist and chief justice of Nigeria from 2006 to 2007.[1] [2]

Biography

Alfa Belgore was born on 17 January 1937,[3] to a Ruling class Fulani family in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State north-central Nigeria.He attended Okesuna Primary School as well as Middle School at Ilorin before he proceeded to Ilesa Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1956.[4] [5]

He received a bachelor's degree in Law in 1963 and also trained at Inner Temple for one year before he returned to Nigeria in 1964 and served magistrate in Northern Nigeria.[6]

In 1986, he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice. He held several positions in the judiciary before he was appointed as chief justice of Nigeria in July 2006, a position he held until January 2007 when he retired.[7]

Membership

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Attorney General: Chronicles and Perspectives. 9789789313839. 28 April 2015. Babalola. Olumide. 23 March 2013. Olumide Babalola .
  2. Book: Human Rights Under African Constitutions. 978-0812201109. 28 April 2015. An-Na'Im. Abdullahi Ahmed. 9 October 2013. University of Pennsylvania Press .
  3. Web site: 29 January 2017 . BELGORE: Salute to a distinguished jurist at 80 . 8 March 2022 . Vanguard News . en-US.
  4. Web site: Alfa Belgore. https://archive.today/20150428072258/http://www.courtofappeal.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=81&Itemid=485. dead. 28 April 2015. courtofappeal.com. 28 April 2015.
  5. Web site: National Industrial Court president to preside over 5th LIM forum. Vanguard News. 28 April 2015.
  6. Web site: The Gentle Alfa – the Life of Modibbo Alfa Belgore. allAfrica.com. 28 April 2015.
  7. Web site: Confab: Nigeria can't break up, Belgore assures – News. Daily Independent, Nigerian Newspaper. 28 April 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111730/http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/10/confab-nigeria-cant-break-up-belgore-assures/. 4 March 2016.
  8. Web site: Distinguished International Members of the Inner Temple . Official Website of the Inner Temple. 19 August 2020.