Edo: Justice Ighodalo Is Dead

A serving judge in Edo State, Justice Morrison Ighodalo, is dead.

He is said to have passed away late Monday after a brief illness.

Ighodalo was the third in the hierarchy of 31 judges in the state.

NAN reports that his demise stalled all cases in the courts, as other judges, magistrates and presidents adjourned.

According to Edo NBA Publicity Secretary, Ogaga Emoghwanre, the association was in a mourning mood.

Adding: “He was a renowned judge with an unflinching determination to always impact knowledge on one and all.

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‘’We will greatly miss him. He was a jurist of no mean repute.”

Edo Chief Judge, Justice Esther Edigin, held a meeting with the judges and later paid a condolence visit to Ighodalo’s family at Boundary Road in GRA, Benin.