BREAKING: Former CJN, Katsina-Alu, is dead

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu, is dead.

Family source said he died at about 2am Wednesday at a private hospital in Abuja.

Katsina-Alu, who was CJN between 2009 and 2011, hailed from Benue State.

He would have been 77years on August 28.