A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, is dead.
Justice Ngwuta reportedly died in the early morning of Sunday, March 7, 2021, in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja at almost 70 years.
Justice Ngwuta, a native of Amofia-Ukawu, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was to retire from the Supreme Court on March 30, 2021.
Recall that Justice Ngwuta was arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja in 2017 over money laundering and passport charges following the discovery of huge sums of money in his residence by security officials.
He started his private legal practice at Abakaliki in July 1978 to October 1995, from 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, was finally sworn-in as Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in May 2011.
He was the chairman of a judicial panel of inquiry into the Obegu Enyibichirikwo Disturbance 1997-1998 and has been a member of several Election Petition Tribunal, Governship and legislative House Election Petition Tribunal; Nasarawa State held at Lafia in February 1999, National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal Plateau State held at Jos in April 1999, among others.
