A justice of the Supreme Court Sylvester Ngwuta has passed on.
Sources at the apex court confirmed to NAN that Ngwuta died in the early hours of Sunday in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja.
Ngwuta was getting set for retirement from the Supreme Court on March 30, 2021 upon attainment of age 70.
Ngwuta was born in 1951 in Amofia-Ukawu, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi.
He started his private legal practice in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital in July 1978 to October 1995, where he was appointed a judge of the High Court Abia in October 1995 and then promoted to the Court of Appeal on May 22, 2003. He was sworn in as justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in May 2011.
Ngwuta was the chairman of the judicial panel of inquiry into the Obegu Enyibichirikwo Disturbance 1997-1998 and has been a member of several election petition tribunals.
