Muhammadu Buba ARDO,

Civil servant,, Jurist

barrister-at-law, civil servant, high court judge, Chief Judge, Bauchi, Borno and Gongola states. Deputy Chairman, Constituent Assembly; Education: Kaduna College (now Barewa College) 1943-1947; joined Nigerian civil service as co-operative inspector, Sept. 23, 1948 and atten ded Co-operative School, Ibadan, 1949-50; University College, Ibadan, for special course in Latin and Roman History, 1951-52; Inns of Court School of Law, London, 1953- 1§56; attained degree of Utter Barrister; called to the English Bar, Feb. 5, 1957; appointed clerk assis tant, old Northern Nigeria House of Assembly for about six months from July 1957; crown counsel in that region's civil service, 1958-61; senior crown counsel, 1961-63; deputy solicitor-general, 1963-64; solicitorgeneral 1964-66 and attorney-genetal, 1966-67; on creation of twelve states, appointed attorney-general and commissioner for justice, North- Eastern State of Nigeria, 1967 - October 1975; appointed chief jus tice of the state, November 1, 1975; on the split of the former North- Eastern State into three states in 1976, continued as Chief Judge…