During the Gowon era, when Nigeria had only 12 states, state commissioners were much more prominent than they are today. Many commissioners’ portrait pictures appeared in the newspapers every day. So many, indeed, that during my primary and secondary school days I made an album of military governors and their commissioners for every state.
One of the most prominent commissioners then was Malam Mamman Nasir, Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice of North Central State [present Kaduna and Katsina states]. His picture, wearing a black coat and white wig, often featured in New Nigerian. I soon made a connection because the songs of Dan Kwairo and Ali Dan Saraki made many references to “Minister Nasiru,” who was very close to the Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sokoto. In , not long after the Gowon regime was overthrown and Nasir lost his job as Attorney General, New Nigerian featured a front-page picture of him, announcing his appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court. It was the only case I ever read of in Nigeria, of a man going straight to the Supreme Court from the bar.
In , Justice Mamman Nasir made another career first when he stepped dow
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