Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua is Dead

The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal Benin division, Hon. Justice Theresa Ngolika Orji-Abadua is dead.

She died Friday, 8 March

Justice Orji-Abadua, who was on the reserve list of nominees for appointment to the Supreme Court last year, hailed from Ikeduru in Imo State.

Born on October 15, 1959, she studied law at the London Metropolitan University from 1980 to 1983 before attending the Nigerian Law School from 1983 to 1984, where she was called to the Bar. She also studied at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University in the UK.

Her Lordship was elevated from the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to the Court of Appeal on 15 February 2008.