CON, CFR FIRSTINDIGENOUSSOLICITORGENERAL,ATTORNEY GENERAL OFNORTHERN NIGERIA. Alhaji Mohammadu Buba Ardo was bom in Fufore in the old Adamawa province in 1930. He did his schoolingin Yola Ekmentary Schoolfrom 1948 and ayear later was sent to Ibadan to do so a course in the Co-operation Schoolfrom 1949-1950. It was in 1953 that he went to theplace of his God chosen profession andgreatness. He went on kave withoutpay to enroll in the Inns of Court in the School of Law in London and studied there till he graduated in 1957. He then becameoneof'thefirstsetof'graduate lawyersin Northern Nigeria. When he returned home in 1957, he went back to the Civil Service as Clerk Assistant to the Northern Regional Legislature. That sameyear however, he transferred to the Legal Department as Pupil Crown Counsel. In 1961 he was rewarded for hard work and dedication to duty when he was promoted to Senior Crown Counsel. Ayear later, he again got a lift when he was made Deputy Solicitor General and crowned it all up in February 1964 with his appointment as Solicitor General of Northern Nigeria. He became thefirst indigenous man to hold that position. ForHonourabk Mohammad Buba Ardo the sky was to be the limit of his progressive march to the zenith of his career. Through determination, dedication to duty and loyalty to the service and by the special grace of Allah he was appointed Attorney General of Northern Nigeria in 1966 before the Army coup that terminated their Government. After the sensekss coup of 1966, Justice Buba Ardo, together with respected Northerners like Sir Kashim Ibrahim, Malam Aminu Kano and Mr. Joseph Tarka was sekaed to represent the North on the National Advisory Council to chart a new courseforthe survivalof Nigeria. For meritoriousserviceto hiscountryhewasawarded'the CONCommanderoftheOrderof' the Nigerin 1965. Because of his rase experience He was named the Chief Judge of the North Eastern State in 1975. He was aho appointed a member of the Constitutional Drafting Committee in the sameyear andJustice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1979. He is forever remembered as one of the veritabk trailbla^ers of the kgalprofession who devoted most of their time to the furtherance of the profession and to kgal reforms. He lived and died in the kgal profession. His last port of service was as the Chief Judge of Adamawa State. The kgal luminary died on Saturday 5th of Oaober, 1991.
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