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Dahiru Musdapher

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Africa and the Middle East

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Dahiru Musdapher, born in 1942, is a Nigerian jurist. He served as a justice of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria from 1985 to 2003 and of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 2003 to 2012, and earlier held posts as attorney-general of Kaduna State and chief judge of the Kano State High Court. In 2011 he was appointed the twelfth Chief Justice of Nigeria by President Goodluck Jonathan, a position he held until 2012.

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