Background
Justice Fabiyi was born on November 25, 1945 in Kogi State, North-Central Nigeria.
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Education
In 1969, he received a bachelor"s degree in Law from Ahmadu Bello University and was Call to the bar in 1970 after he graduated from the Nigerian Law School.
Career
He was formerly a Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeal. He began his career at Noel Gery & Company, a law firm in Kano State before he joined the Kwara State Judiciary as Magistrate and rose to the position of High Court Judge in the same state. In 1994, he was transferred to Anambra State where he served as Chairman of Election petition tribunal for four years.
In 1998, he was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justice and in 2006, hrose to the position of Judge of the Court of Appeal in Ibadan.
Fabiyi presided over the rulling of the Supreme Court in which Chief Bode George was discharge and acquittal of the fraud charges leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He also presided over the rulling of the Supreme Court that affirmed Ayodele Fayose as the governor elect of Ekiti State in the June 21, 2014 governorship election.
Achievements
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He served in that capacity for three years before he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2009 as Justice, the same year he bagged a National honour, Commander of Order of the Niger, awarded by the Federal Government of Nigeria, decorated by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
