JUSTICE NIKI TOBY DEAD

Resigned Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, has kicked the bucket. Tobi went on in the early hours of Friday at the National Hospital, Abuja. His body was later moved to the mortuary of Harkin General Hospital. The resigned judge had been having grave wellbeing issues following 2011. He hence went blind and completely lost his memory. Tobi was designated to the Supreme Court in 2002 and resigned in July 2010 in the wake of accomplishing the age of 70.

His record of administration was altogether scourged by his enrollment of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, which accepted the imperfect 2007 presidential race that introduced the late President Umaru Yar' Adua. Tobi and different individuals from the tribunal were said to have been intensely incited by Yar' Adua who, in his inaugural discourse as president, conceded that his decision was defective. Aside from money related impelling, his high court judge child, Ebowei Tobi was penciled for height to the Court of Appeal, however the arrangement fell through the split after Saharareporters presented it to people in general.
BORN on  July 14, 1940 in Esanma in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, Tobi was a scholastic before his vocation on the seat. As a scholastic, he was differently the Dean, of Faculty of Law, University of Maiduguri and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services) of the same establishment.