Abdulkadir Orire
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Abdulkadir Orire (1934 – 26 January 2021) was a legal scholar, researcher, community leader, and development activist. He was the first Grand Khadi of the Kwara State Sharia Court of Appeal, in Nigeria.[1]
Abdulkadir Orire was born in 1934 at Obaninsunwa in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State in north-central Nigeria.[2]
Education
He had his primary and secondary education at Ilorin between 1943 and 1951, after which he attended Kano Islamic Law School from 1951 to 1955. He later obtained a Diploma from the School of Oriental Studies, London in 1961 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London in 1964, and he also had a Post Graduate Diploma from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.[3]
