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

Family sources said he died at about 2am on Wednesday at Chida Orthopaedic Hospital, Gudu, Abuja.

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

He would have been 77 years on August 28.