Samuel Chukwudumebi Oseji, a justice of the supreme court, is dead.

Oseji, who has been less than one year on the apex court bench, died aged 67 on Tuesday.

Thelagostimes gathered that he died in Abuja after a protracted illness.

Oseji was born on June 2, 1954, in Jos, Plateau state.

He hails from Aniocha north local government area of Delta state.

He attended Saint Patrick’s College, Asaba, Delta state. He graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1984 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985.

Before his nomination to the supreme court, Oseji was appointed as a member of the presidential election petition tribunal in February 2019.