Oyo Chief Registrar, Badrudeen, dies at 53

The Chief Registrar, Oyo State High Court, Alhaja Fatimo Badrudeen, is dead.

She died after a brief illness, aged 53 years.

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Daily Trust gathered that she died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, on Monday.

Badrudeen was called to Bar in 1993 and started her legal career in the Chambers of late Alhaji R. A. Sarumi before she became a judge at the lower Bench of Oyo State Judiciary as magistrate and later rose to become Chief Magistrate (Administration).

Reports have it that the deceased was one of the three persons penciled down for appointment as Judges before her death.

The Public Relations Officer of the Oyo State Judiciary, Mrs Opeyemi Udoh, also confirmed the Chief Registrar’s death, saying, “It is true that the Chief Registrar died today. She was 53 years old.”