Breaking: Hon Justice Nonye Okoronkwo Is Dead |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

The Judiciary and Imo State has lost a brilliant, legal, mind.

Honourable Justice Nonye Okoronkwo, a Judge of the Court of Appeal, Ibadan Division, died Sunday morning, July 26, 2020.

Family sources confirmed to this magazine that Okoronkwo died after a surgery at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan.

Until his elevation to the Court of Appeal on 17th March, 2014, he was a Judge of the Imo State High Court.

A native of Owerri, Imo State, Justice Okoronkwo was married to his lovely Chizo.

Within a month, Imo State has lost two Hon. Judges. Hon Justice Christy Anwuka, a Judge of the Imo State Customary Court of Appeal, recently died in the US.

She is yet to be buried.